Now live for bidding, the First Open and the Rosa de la Cruz Collection Online sales present a wide array of works by the most exciting artists on the market, including Vojtěch Kovařík, Vaughn Spann, Ali Banisadr and Loriel Beltrán.
Not sure where to begin? Discover hot artists at refreshing prices at our link in bio and start your collecting journey today.
These works and more will be on view at Christie’s New York on 12-17 July.
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First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 2-17 July
The Rosa de la Cruz Collection Online Sale | 2-18 July
Christie’s is delighted to announce that Quentin Metsys’s rediscovered masterpiece, ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’ has been acquired by @gettymuseum
Sold for £10,660,000 at Christie’s London last night in The Old Masters Part I Sale, this painting’s acquisition makes ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’ the second work by Metsys to enter the museum’s collection of Netherlandish painting.
Dating from the 1520s and painted at the height of Metsys’s career, ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’, became one of his most celebrated singular masterpieces, inspiring generations of artists.
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‘I got a phone call asking me would I join the Beatles and I said yes’ – Ringo Starr.
The present lot is an autograph letter written by musician Ringo Starr, to Doreen Walker, where he announces that he has joined English rock band The Beatles.
Starr was persuaded by John Lennon and Paul McCartney to leave his previous band ‘Rory Storm and the Hurricanes’, as they became increasingly dissatisfied with The Beatles’ previous drummer, Pete Best. His first performance as a member of The Beatles was on 18 August 1962.
🗓️Valuable Books and Manuscripts | Live Auction: 10 July 10.30am BST.
Ringo Starr, ‘Autograph letter signed (‘Ringo’) to Doreen Walker’ (31 October 1962), Estimate: £30,000 - £40,000.
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📣 Christie’s Classic Week Evening sales – Old Masters Part I Sale and The Exceptional Sale – realised a combined total of £50,788,420.
Among the top lots of the evening were Titian’s early masterpiece Rest on the Flight into Egypt which achieved £17,560,000, setting a new auction record for the artist and returning the work to the same auction room where it was last sold in 1878; Quentin Metsys’s rediscovered masterpiece The Madonna of the Cherries which realised £10,660,000, also a new world auction record for the artist; and Frans Hals’s Portrait of a gentleman of the de Wolff family, sold for £5,715,000 (last offered in 1919, at Christie’s King Street).
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The Einstein-Szilard letter is one of the most influential letters written in the 20th century.
Addressed to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this sober and urgent letter led to the birth of the nuclear age—changing the course of human history.
Watch here, as Senior Specialist Peter Klarnet unpacks the gravity of this profound note that influenced Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen.
Read the editorial at our link in bio.
Pushing Boundaries: Ingenuity from the Paul G. Allen Collection | New York | 10 September
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Marc Chagall’s depiction of blossoming bouquets remained central to his experimentations with colour. 💐
Chagall most likely drew the inspiration for these blossoms straight from life, as bouquets of freshly cut flowers were brought daily to his studio during these years, filling the space with their vibrant colours and scent.
Filled with the heady romance and fragrance of an exuberant blossoming bouquet, Marc Chagall’s Bouquet de fleurs presents a triumphal expression of beauty and joy during the highly successful period of his mature career in the 1960s.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), ‘Bouquets de fleurs’ (1965).
Price upon request.
📍 Never before seen at auction, this work is available to purchase immediately via Christie’s Private Sales. Email privatesales@christies.com to enquire.
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Martin Drölling’s remarkable ‘Portrait of Barthélémy Charles’.
This stylish portrait once graced the walls at the White House after it was acquired in the late 1950s by then-senator John F Kennedy, as a present to his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy. The painting hung in their home in Washington D.C. before being installed in the White House following Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. At Jacqueline’s 1996 estate sale, the work was acquired by entrepreneur and distinguished collector Sam Josefowitz.
In the present work, Barthélémy Charles’s languid pose and distant gaze convey an effortless, informal disposition, enhanced by his overturned hat and the manner in which his coattail drapes over the terrace wall.
🗓Old Masters Part 2: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolours | Live Auction: 3 July 10:30am BST.
Martin Drölling (1752-1817), ‘Portrait of Barthélémy Charles, Comte de Dreux-Nancré (1760-1863)’ (1797), Estimate: £40,000 - £60,000.
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Don’t miss Art + Tech 2024! This year’s conference will bring together pre-eminent voices across the tech industry — including Refik Anadol, Marie-Claire Daveu, Sasha Stiles and Steve Wozniak — to discuss the role and impact of technologies in the art world. Explore technology trends as they intersect with the creative and luxury space within these four pillars of innovation: AI in Real Life, Art and its Market, Thoughtful Luxury, and New Paradigms in Technology. Purchase tickets via the link in bio. Christie’s Art+Tech Summit is presented in partnership with @moonpay and @samsungnextteam#ChristiesArtTech
Christie’s Paris is delighted to present ‘Legendary Trunks: A European Private Collection’, the largest private collection of Louis Vuitton trunks ever offered at auction.
Curated by a passionate collector, this collection spans nearly two centuries of Louis Vuitton’s history, highlighting the evolution of design and innovation.
Each trunk is a testament to the timeless sophistication and robust craftsmanship. Sale highlight includes a Louis Vuitton 1908 natural cowhide leather picnic trunk with brass hardware.
📅Legendary trunks : A European Private Collection | Online: 19 June - 3 July
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Can you spot the two Old Masters auction highlights in these 17th-century Kunstkammer paintings?
Coveted by aristocrats, emperors and archdukes, both Quentin Metsys’s Madonna of the Cherries and Titian’s The Rest on the Flight into Egypt were once housed in grand art collections as depicted in these gallery pictures (or Kunstkammer paintings).
Both works were once lost to history and have fascinating tales of rediscovery.
Comment below where you spot the Titian and the Metsys, and what other masterpieces you spy in these cabinets of curiosities.
📍Discover these exceptional works on view at Christie’s London from 28 June - 2 July!
Images in order of appearance:
📸 (1) David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Painting Gallery in Brussels.
📸 (2) Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian, ‘The Rest on the Flight into Egypt’ (circa 1510). Estimate: £15,000,000 – £25,000,000.
📸 (3) Willem van Haecht (1593–1639), The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest.
📸 (4) Quentin Metsys (1465/6-1530), ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’. Estimate: £8,000,000-£12,000,000.
📅Old Masters Part I | London, 2 July 2024
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Félix González-Torres’s record-breaking “Untitled” (America #3 ) from the Rosa de la Cruz Collection, emanates a warm glow wholly familiar to our collective consciousness.
Composed of 42 light bulbs, porcelain light sockets, and electrical cord, González-Torres merges the formal austerity of minimalism with personal narratives and the challenging socio-political circumstances of his time.
Join us in this final instalment of our Pride Month series as Cataloguer Jack Nelson sheds light on this significant achievement that shattered records this past May.
More works from the Rosa de la Cruz Collection will be on view from 12–17 July at Christie’s New York.
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An 18th century jewellery cabinet💎
Made in England around 1757, this extraordinary cabinet would have been commissioned by a merchant of the East India Company for trade with China. Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) was renowned for having a keen interest in acquiring exotic luxury items, and pieces like the present lot were highly sought-after as tributes for him.
Finely executed in gold, ormolu and auspicious stones, such as lapis lazuli, the cabinets compartmentalised interior was designed to hold jewellery and other precious treasures.
📅The Exceptional Sale | Live Auction: 2 July 5pm BST.
‘A George II Gold and Ormolu jewellery cabinet set with simulated agate, bloodstone, and lapis-lazuli’ (c.1757), Estimate: £200,000 - £300,000.
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