Going Once No. 398 | John Baldessari's A B C Art

Waterside properties, A guide to prints, Sine Qua Non wines, Mediterranean art shows, and more [Christie's]( [Christie's]( [Going Once] [Going Once] 13 July 2024 This week’s stories ‘His work tricks our mind’: Baldessari’s A B C Art [ ]( Ant, brain, cigar… how the artist’s playful visual alphabet grew out of the space between conceptual art and printmaking [Read more]( [ ]( Luxury waterside homes: five sublime properties, including a palace in Tangier and a Gio Ponti villa on the Ligurian coast [Read more]( [ ]( Our prints collecting guide: featuring works by Longo, Hockney, Freud, Frankenthaler, Rauschenberg and Ruscha [Read more]( [ ]( Artist labels, glorious Rhône grapes and offbeat bottle shapes — how California’s Sine Qua Non acquired a cult following [Read more]( [ ]( Heading for the Med? Check out the best exhibitions showing this summer, from Condo in Hydra to Chillida in Menorca [Read more]( [More Stories]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Editor’s picks [ ]( Anne Buckwalter’s captivating paintings of domestic interiors — flat, orderly, colourful and minutely detailed — hint at something beyond the everyday. Her 2024 work [Late Breakfast]( includes an electric hob, a fried egg, slices of red pepper and various kitchen utensils, but also a mysterious version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine [View Lot]( Estimate: $7,000-10,000 25 July -3 August , Online [ ]( Calling to mind summer fruits and ice cream, this limited-edition [Sellier Kelly 32]( handbag is a perfect match for sunny days and balmy evenings. Its primary material is Swift leather, in the luscious raspberry shade dubbed ‘framboise’ by Hermès, with panels of Toile H Berline and Toile H Plume — two of the brand’s signature fabrics [View Lot]( Price on request Private Sales [ ]( For his 1965 print [Moonscape]( Roy Lichtenstein used a type of vinyl called Rowlux to represent the rippling evening sky, while his more familiar Ben-Day dots formed a pink-tinged cloud. Rowlux is covered in tiny parabolic lenses that make it appear to shimmer, an effect described by the artist as ‘a sort of ready-made nature’ [View Lot]( Estimate: $20,000-30,000 until 23 July , Online [ ]( Grange Hermitage, the benchmark Australian Shiraz, was first produced in the 1950s by Max Schubert, chief winemaker at Penfolds. After a visit to Bordeaux, he was determined to create wines capable of ageing, a goal he achieved in spectacular style. [Penfolds, Grange 1982]( is among the top vintages, with notes of ripe plum, vanilla and mint [View Lot]( Estimate: $900-1,400 until 23 July , Online [Browse Auctions]( --------------------------------------------------------------- What’s on Last chance to bid | Online [The Rosa de la Cruz Collection Online Sale, until 18 July ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Opening soon | Online [Handbags Online: The Hong Kong Edit, 17-31 July ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Selling exhibition | London, New York and online [Impressionism: 150 Years, until 30 August ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Spotlight on [ ]( • [Looking for the perfect wine glass?]( Your guide to matching shape to grape on the terrace this summer • As Christie’s Art + Tech Summit opens on 17 July , get clued up with our [primer on digital art]( • [Nicole Sales Giles]( Christie’s Director of Digital Art, on revolutionising the online auction space [ ]( Anytime, Anywhere [Private Sales: Our best kept secret]( ART AND LUXURY, READY TO TAKE HOME [Buy Now]( [ ]( Online Education [Study the art world this summer]( Sign-up now, wherever you are [Learn More]( [All Stories]( [Auctions]( [Private Sales]( [Christie’s 3.0]( [Christie's]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us [INSTAGRAM]( | [FACEBOOK]( | [YOUTUBE]( | [WECHAT]( [© CHRISTIE’S 2024]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( John Baldessari (1931-2020), A B C Art (Low Relief): A/Ant, Etc. (Keyboard), 2009. Mixografía® print in colours, on handmade paper in 26 parts. Overall: 44 x 259 x 2½ in (111.7 x 657.8 x 6.4 cm). Offered in Contemporary Edition: New York until 23 July 2024 at Christie’s Online. Artwork: © John Baldessari 2009. Courtesy Estate of John Baldessari © 2024 Courtesy John Baldessari Family Foundation. Courtesy Sprüth Magers // Robert Longo (b. 1953), Untitled I, from Men in the Cities, 1990. Lithograph in black and grey with embossing, on wove paper. Framed. Image: 14½ x 30 in (368 x 762 mm). Sheet: 26 x 40 in (660 x 1016 mm). Estimate: $8,000-12,000. Offered in Contemporary Edition: New York until 23 July 2024 at Christie’s Online. © 2024 Robert Longo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York // Installation view, George Condo: The Mad and the Lonely, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra. © George Condo, courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Giorgos Sfakianakis // Collector Rosa de la Cruz. Photo: Courtesy of the consignor