Online Magazine No.259

Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, How the Fords collected, A Persian treasure, Tintoretto’s daughter, Matisse, Art sales redefined, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Art sales reimagined: how our new 20th & 21st Century Art department is shaking things up]( [The story of Persia’s fashion-obsessed ruler Fath ’Ali Shah — and a few of his 250 sons]( ‘ [‘Style and collecting on a grand scale’: inside the private world of one of America’s great dynasties]( [Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: one of the most important ‘London’ paintings offered in a generation]( [From the archive: the art of Henri Matisse, from his love of textiles to his mastery of colour]( [The only image categorically attributed to Tintoretto’s daughter, his beloved Marietta]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Cup and Saucer II is unmistakably the work of Roy Lichtenstein, but it’s a painted bronze rather than a canvas. A series of such bronzes, made between 1976 and 1977, feature mirrors, lamps, a goldfish bowl and other domestic objects, reflecting his focus on still life in the 1970s]( [Estimate: £450,000-650,000 23 March, London]( [Louis Anquetin’s 1887 work L’Avenue de Clichy, Paris is quite distinct from the art of the Impressionists. Inspired by medieval stained glass and Japanese woodcuts, Anquetin developed a style known as Cloisonnism, with flat areas of colour enclosed by black outlines, creating his own lucid, modern vision of the city]( [Estimate: £250,000-350,000 24 March, London]( [This pendant necklace is by Graff, the jewellery house that was founded in London six decades ago and now has 50 stores around the world. Made of white gold inlaid with 107 round diamonds and 315 round sapphires, it evokes the power of the ocean with an intricate and eye-catching wave motif]( [Estimate: HK$240,000-340,000 until 25 March, Online]( [Eugène Delacroix is known for vast history paintings, so it is intriguing to see his intimate ink, watercolour and gouache drawing for a lithograph to illustrate Goethe’s Faust. It depicts the scene in which the demon Mephistopheles appears to Faust and offers him the gift of youth in exchange for his soul]( [Estimate: €50,000-70,000 24 March, Paris](   © [Christie’s 2021]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Henri Matisse in his studio, Nice, August 1949. Photo: © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos. Artworks: © Succession H. Matisse / DACS 2021