Online Magazine No.318

The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection, Asian Art Week, Abstract greats, Contemporary Chinese art, Lord Leighton’s house, Photography in Berlin, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [How the Gettys married French, English and Chinese style to create this fantasy drawing room]( [One step ahead: the French ‘pioneers and risk-takers’ who fell in love with China’s art scene]( ‘ [‘Dreams translated into indelible images’: celebrating 25 years of Camera Work gallery in Berlin]( [Asian Art Week gems: from this Chinese vase to modern Indian art, via Japan, Korea and Nepal]( [Abstraction’s broad church: from Frankenthaler and Albers to Whitney, Benglis and Bowling]( [How Frederic, Lord Leighton’s ‘private palace of art’ has been brought closer to what he knew]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Banksy takes on Andy Warhol in Soup Can — Mint/Emerald Green from 2005. The New York Pop artist elevated everyday objects to the status of art with his Campbell’s soup tins, but Banksy went a step further by depicting an item from the cut-price, own-brand Tesco Value range]( [Estimate: £50,000-70,000 until 21 September, Online]( [This Louis XV bureau in tulipwood and kingwood embodies the lightness and fluidity of the Rococo style. Made in the manner of the German-born master Jean-Pierre Latz in the mid-18th century, it is inlaid with flowering branches in sinuous lines that echo the elegant organic curves of the legs]( [Estimate: £12,000-18,000 until 22 September, Online]( [The French painter and sculptor Robert Combas had an early fascination with Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, once declaring that ‘Mickey is no longer the property of Walt, he belongs to everyone.’ This freed him to reimagine the character in works such as Mickey découpé, a plywood cutout from 1977-78]( [Estimate: €15,000-20,000 21 September, Paris]( [Ichiro’s Malt King of Clubs, from the Card series, is a very rare Japanese whisky from a ‘silent still’ — a producer no longer in operation. It was made in 1988 at the Hanyu distillery, which closed in 2000. The grandson of the founders saved the precious stocks of whisky, bottling this example in 2010]( [Estimate: HK$140,000-200,000 until 23 September, Online](   © [Christie’s 2022]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Liu Xiaodong (b. 1963), A Dying Rabbit and Nothing to do Men No. 2, 2001 (detail). Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm (78¾ x 78¾ in). Estimate: €300,000-500,000. Offered in Un regard sur le monde: Collection Comte & Comtesse Jean-Jacques de Flers on 21 September 2022 at Christie’s Paris // Peter Lindbergh (1944-2019), Estelle Lefébure, Karen Alexander, Rachel Williams, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz and Christy Turlington, Santa Monica, 1988. Archival pigment print flush-mounted on board. 120 x 180.3 cm. Edition: AP 1/3. Photo: © Peter Lindbergh. Courtesy of CAMERA WORK Gallery // Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), Untitled, 1964. Acrylic on canvas. 17⅛ x 27⅛ in (43.5 x 68.9 cm). Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Offered in Post-War to Present on 29 September at Christie’s New York. Artwork: © Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / ARS, NY and DACS London 2022 // Leighton House. Photo: Will Pryce. © Leighton House, RBKC