Online Magazine No.289

Artists’ houses, Jasper Johns, The Barbizon school, Boivin jewels, Gold boxes, Caroline Issa’s art wish list, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Home is where the art is: artists’ houses that are themselves works of art, from Kahlo to O’Keeffe]( [Jasper Johns — why is his latest retrospective in New York and Philadelphia at the same time?]( ‘ [Boivin — how these brilliant creations established the maison as ‘jeweller of the intelligentsia’]( [All about Barbizon: the village where Corot and his cohorts led a quiet revolution in painting]( [‘Let’s try to find you a Hatoum’: we advise style guru Caroline Issa on realising her art wish list]( [Can you tell your tabatière from your bonbonnière? Everything you need to know about gold boxes]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Sir George Clausen painted The Breakfast Table during the First World War, in which his son was serving and his daughter had lost her fiancé. This quietly radiant evocation of a sunlit room in the artist’s London home feels like a brief respite from the trauma and upheaval of the time]( [Estimate: £30,000-50,000 until 16 December, Online]( [‘I have never wanted to draw what other people would suggest,’ the Spanish artist Edgar Plans has said. His 2018 work Untitled, in which a masked, caped cartoon mouse holds two paintbrushes, is one of his ‘Animal Hero’ pieces, inspired by comics and street art]( [Estimate: $8,000-12,000 until 15 December, Online]( [Crafted by Breguet, this gold pocket watch dates from around 1840. Both the inner and outer cases are beautifully decorated with polychrome enamel maps showing parts of Europe and modern-day Turkey that were then under Ottoman rule — as well as independent Greece and the heel of Italy]( [Estimate: CHF20,000-30,000 until 14 December, Online]( [This miniature on vellum depicts a sixth-century clash between the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia and its neighbour Thuringia. Two jousting knights are portrayed in gilded detail, while sword-wielding figures in silhouette suggest the battle raging behind. It was painted around 1460 by the Master of Evert van Soudenbalch]( [Estimate: £18,000-25,000 15 December, London](   © [Christie’s 2021]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú sitting room, 2019. Photo: Krysta Jabczenski. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. // Jack Shear, Jasper Johns, 1992. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 35.4 x 28.1 cm, image: 25.4 x 25.4 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 2017.60. © Jack Shear // Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1955. Encaustic and collage on canvas with objects (75.6 x 66 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull 8.1958. © Jasper Johns / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art until 13 February 2022