Online Magazine No.330

Amundsen’s flag, Game-changing jade, Katy Hessel, Fifty years of photographs sales, Ince & Mayhew, First Open highlights, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Roald Amundsen: four journeys to the ends of the Earth, and the flag he brought on all of them]( [‘I saw something missing’: meet Katy Hessel, author of a new history of art — without men]( ‘ [In-demand Ernie Barnes, rare Danielle Orchard… Highlights from First Open in New York]( [‘They were perfect carvings’: an unknown collection of Chinese art that has wowed jade scholars]( [Why photography is now valued as fine art — and the part played by our sales across half a century]( [William Ince and John Mayhew: the 40-year partnership that took English furniture to new heights]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [The classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber has often featured in the country’s art. This 1978 work by Guan Liang shows Qingwen, maid of the hero Jia Baoyu (the standing figure), working through the night to mend a cloak he has damaged — no easy task as it is made of peacock feathers]( [Estimate: €20,000-25,000 16 December, Paris]( [San Francisco is given the Photorealist treatment in Robert Bechtle’s Twentieth and Mississippi Streets, painted in 1992. The delicate watercolour on paper captures the skewed perspective of one of the city’s dizzyingly steep thoroughfares, with the road’s surface blocking out the lower half of the building ahead]( [Estimate: $7,000-10,000 until 14 December, Online]( [This Van Cleef & Arpels brooch captures something of the style of the era in which it was produced, around 1970. The winsome animal figure in 18ct gold, with its emerald eyes, diamond muzzle and onyx nose, is known as the lion ébouriffé, which means ‘tousled lion’]( [Estimate: €4,000-6,000 until 15 December, Online]( [Kasing Lung’s A Perfect Day, from 2017, shows an assortment of little monsters cavorting through a fairy-tale landscape. The artist was born in Hong Kong, but his inspiration comes from the other side of the world: Nordic folklore informs his fantastical creations, including Labubu, a rabbit with serrated teeth]( [Estimate: HK$150,000-300,000 until 13 December, Online](   © [Christie’s 2022]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Amundsen’s expedition at the South Pole, 1911. Photo: National Library of Norway // Marie Denise Villers, Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes, 1801. Oil on canvas. Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York // Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), Cassiopeia, June 1866 (detail). Albumen silver print from glass negative. Sold for £55,250 on 17 May 2011 at Christie’s in London // Ernie Barnes (1938-2009), Bookin', c. 1970s. Acrylic on canvas, in artist's frame. Canvas: 30 x 15 in (76.2 x 38 cm); artist's frame: 35 x 18 in (89 x 45.7 cm). Estimate: $80,000-120,000 / Lynne Drexler (1928-1999), Meadow Fog, 1980. Oil on canvas. 36 x 29 in (91.4 x 73.7 cm). Estimate: $30,000-50,000 / Belkis Ayón (1967-1999), La Sentencia, 1993. Collograph on paper. 36 x 26¼ in (91 x 67 cm). $15,000-20,000 / Bob Thompson (1936-1966), Trees and River, 1960. Oil on canvas. 7¾ x 12½ in (19.7 x 31.8 cm). Estimate: $20,000-30,000 / Danielle Orchard (b. 1985), Girl Removing Her Shirt Study, 2017. Oil on canvas. 18 x 14 in (45.7 x 35.6 cm). Estimate: $15,000-20,000. All offered in First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art until 14 December 2022 at Christie’s online