Online Magazine No.185

The year of Lucian Freud, New York street photography, The wild world of Dylan Lewis, Michael Peppiatt’s new play about Bacon and Giacometti, Art in Philadelphia, Andrew Graham-Dixon on a ‘multi-cultural masterpiece’, plus more [Christie's]( [Exploring the ‘wild untamed aspects of the human psyche’ with sculptor Dylan Lewis]( [The exhibitions, the biography, the market: why 2019 is set to be ‘The Year of Lucian Freud’]( [The collaborative spirit that is fuelling Philadelphia’s remarkable artistic renaissance]( [Street life — the photographers who created an art form out of New York’s urban theatre]( [Andrew Graham-Dixon on why Sicily’s Monreale cathedral is a ‘lesson for our times’]( [Making headlines: Meet Eva Dichand, contemporary art collector and media magnate]( Also on Christies.com [Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti: A Dialogue — an exclusive video preview of Michael Peppiatt’s insightful new play]( [Silvia Cubiñá, executive director of the Bass Museum in Miami, on curation, innovation and renovation]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [‘Robert shot us in free fall,’ said Cindy Sherman of Robert Longo’s iconic ‘Men in the Cities’ series, which saw the New York artist photograph friends on the roof of his apartment before turning the images into photo-realistic drawings]( [Estimate: $40,000-60,000 9-16 July, Online]( [This terrestrial map of China was originally made circa 1190 by the polymath Huang Shang for the Emperor Ningzong. This copy is possibly the oldest surviving Chinese printed map of its kind. It is offered with its companion star map]( [Estimate: £400,000-600,000 10 July, London]( [Unseen in public since 1926, this is a full-scale preparatory study for the finished version of J.W. Waterhouse’s Phyllis and Demophoön, which was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1907]( [Estimate: £150,000-250,000 11 July, London]( [In May 1969, Apollo 10 reached a speed of 24,791 nautical miles per hour on its return flight to Earth, making this USA flag, which was on board, the fastest flown flag in history]( [Estimate: $25,000-35,000 18 July, New York]( [More trending lots]( Plan your visit to Christie’s [London Enjoy seven works by Sir Alfred Munnings in our Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art sale, 6-10 July]( [New York View extraordinary artefacts from our One Giant Leap: Celebrating Space Exploration 50 Years after Apollo 11 auction, 11-17 July]( [Full listings]( This will be our last edition before the summer break. We’ll be back in late August © [Christie’s 2019]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Dylan Lewis. Artwork © Pardus Fine Art CC // David Dawson, Working at Night, 2005. Private Collection. Bridgeman Images // Amy Sherald (b. 1973), Untitled, 2019. Photo: Steve Weinik // Louis Faurer (1916-2001), Broadway Convertible, New York City, 1950. Estimate: $3,000-5,000. Offered in Photographs: New York, New York on 16-24 July, Online. Artwork © 2019 Estate of Louis Faurer // A view towards the altar at Monreale cathedral, Sicily. Photo: Antonino Bartuccio/4Corners // Eva Dichand in her apartment. Artworks: Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, 2016. © Heimo Zobernig, DACS 2019. Miriam Cahn, HÄNDE HOCH!, 2014 (detail) © Miriam Cahn. Photograph by Mattia Balsamini