Online Magazine No.200

For our 200th edition…Frank Lloyd Wright chairs, Roman sculptures, Climate change art, Diamond encrusted headphones, and who was buying what at Christie’s 200 years ago, plus more [Christie's]( [Rare Frank Lloyd Wright chairs from the first masterpiece of his Prairie house style]( [Thought-provoking kinetic art, big names at surprising prices, and artists to invest in today]( [How Clark Gable and the CIA played a part in Animal Farm, the UK’s first animated feature film]( [Big time sensuality: Roman sculptures of Eros and Venus — the god and goddess of love]( [The collecting couple: ‘If we weren’t married, we’d be bidding against each other at auctions’]( [To mark our 200th edition, we rewind 200 years to see who was buying what at Christie’s in 1819]( Also on Christies.com [A guide to Cycladic art and why — 5,000 years later — even a sculpted head, torso, leg or foot can be highly desirable]( [Hong Kong auctions defy challenges to total $337 million, attracting buyers coming from 50 different countries]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [This photograph was taken by Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) for Vogue in 1949. When most models were being paid $10-25 an hour, Lisa Fonssagrives commanded $40 an hour. The Swedish supermodel married Irving Penn the following year, and later became a sculptor]( [Estimate: $6,000-8,000 2-11 December, Online]( [Guido Reni (1575-1642) became a key figure in the early Baroque. He is known to have painted two versions of the Fortuna, which differ in only one detail: in one, she holds a crown in her right hand, in the other a purse. This version is dated to 1637-40]( [Estimate: £600,000-800,000 3 December, London]( [Portrait intaglios in aquamarine are exceedingly rare. The gemstone was virtually unknown in the Roman world before the mid-first century BC. This changed after the Romans took control of a trade route from India through to Alexandria]( [Estimate: £30,000-50,000 4 December, London]( [Created for the Halftime Show at Super Bowl XLVI, these one-of-a-kind diamond and ruby ‘Beats Pro’ by Dr. Dre headphones were made in collaboration with Graff. They have been worn by Madonna, LMFAO and Lil Wayne]( [Estimate: $100,000-150,000 11 December, New York]( [More trending lots]( Plan your visit to Christie’s [London Enjoy In the Field, a curated collection of works representing over 300 years of sporting art, 7-11 December]( [New York View the Design sale, which celebrates the creative visions of the 20th century’s most important designers and architects, 6-12 December]( [Full listings]( © [Christie’s 2019]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( View of the Ward W. Willits House, Highland Park, Illinois, circa 1910. Photo: Chicago Architectural Photography Company/Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust/Getty Images // BREAKFAST (est. 2009), Svalbard Ice, 2019 (detail). Estimate: $8,000-12,000. Offered in First Open, Online, 9-18 December // Erica Lai and Ronald Ooi with Artur Heras, Persona amb A, 2003 (detail), and Anne Ross, Cha Cha Cha, 2005 (detail). Artworks: © Artur Heras; © Anne Ross. Photograph by Sean Fennessey