Online Magazine No.297

Francis Bacon’s Triptych 1986-7, Art Dubai, Line Vautrin design, Sculptors on paper, Art Nouveau, Etel Adnan, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [A US president, Leon Trotsky, a dissolving nude — what is going on in Bacon’s Triptych 1986-7?]( [‘The poetess of metal’: how Line Vautrin ‘turned everyday objects into whimsical works of art’]( ‘ [An easier (and more affordable) route to sculptors such as Calder and Serra — works on paper]( [Art Dubai: ‘Art is being bought and sold in the emirate like never before. It’s a thrilling time’]( [‘I didn’t need to use words, but colours and lines’: the poet who turned to paint because of war]( [Gallé, Tiffany, Daum: how Art Nouveau’s high priests married metal and glass to nature’s forms]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Le Lapin Agile à Montmartre depicts a famous Paris cabaret bar, once frequented by Picasso and Modigliani, that still exists today. Maurice Utrillo, born nearby to an acrobat turned artist’s model, painted it around 1912-14, mixing plaster with his oils to convey the colour of the walls]( [Estimate: £80,000-120,000 4 March, London]( [Gered Mankowitz has created some of the most memorable images in the history of rock, photographing everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush. He charted the rise of the Rolling Stones in the 1960s and revisited them as they rehearsed for their 1982 European tour, capturing this shot of Mick Jagger]( [Estimate: £5,000-7,000 until 9 March, Online]( [With her use of flattened perspective in domestic settings, LA-based artist Hilary Pecis has been likened to David Hockney. In Kitchen Counter, from 2015, she seems to make inanimate objects flex with life. ‘Each work has a certain wonky quality,’ she says, ‘a fluidity that I try to keep’]( [Estimate: £60,000-80,000 2 March, London]( [Published in 1923, Kandinsky is the work of the artist and reformer Katherine Dreier. She was born into a wealthy New York family and used her fortune to promote modern art, setting up the publishing house Société Anonyme with Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp to bring the avant-garde to America]( [Estimate: €600-800 10 March, Paris](   © [Christie’s 2022]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Francis Bacon with Triptych 1986-7 at Galerie Lelong in Paris, 1987. Photo: Michel Nguyen. Artwork: © Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2022 // Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1932. Estimate: $40,000-60,000. Offered in Post-War to Present on 10 March 2022 at Christie's in New York // Meem Gallery at Art Dubai, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of Art Dubai and chrissified // Etel Adnan in California, circa 1955-58. Photo courtesy of the present owner of the collection Journey to Mount Tamalpais: Important Early Works by Etel Adnan