Online Magazine No.332

Jane Fonda and Thornton Dial, The Peale dynasty of painters, The ancient Near East, Americana, The J.E. Safra Collection, An English country house, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [When Jane Fonda discovered the art of Thornton Dial: ‘I couldn’t believe the courage, the rawness’]( [From the collection of J.E. Safra — four centuries of great works, from Van Hemessen to Turner]( ‘ [‘The perfect balance between grandeur and comfort’: treasures from an English country house]( [Pioneers in paint: how the Peale dynasty blazed trails through the artistic landscapes of America]( [The ancient Near East: how to collect its seals, cylinders, tablets, amulets, sculptures and jewellery]( [Americana most wanted: from a whimsical windmill to a silver ice bowl resplendent with polar bear]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [As well as being secretary and counsellor to Louis XV, Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville wrote books on gardening and natural history. La Conchyliologie, from 1757, is his extensive study of seashells, with a sumptuous frontispiece of male and female marine deities based on a painting by François Boucher]( [Estimate: $14,000-18,000 until 27 January, Online]( [The English painter William Henry Hamilton Trood was adept at depicting animals in the whimsical, sentimental style adored by the Victorians. Dating from 1890, Meal Time has something for every pet lover, with kittens and puppies tottering alongside older cats and dogs while chicks and ducklings skitter nearby]( [Estimate: $60,000-80,000 17 January-1 February, Online]( [For his autumn/winter haute couture collection in 1988, Karl Lagerfeld looked back 400 years to Elizabethan England. This Chanel velvet dress, cut in a style that wouldn’t look out of place on a Shakespearean stage, is embroidered in gold thread with an elaborate, Tudor-inspired flower-and-foliage pattern]( [Estimate: €4,000-6,000 until 25 January, Online]( [This trompe l’oeil painting is the kind of work that became a speciality of the 18th-century French artist Jean Valette-Falgores, known as Penot. Hung on a wall, the picture is intended to ‘fool the eye’ into seeing it not as an artwork but as a real set of shelves loaded with gleaming bottles, plates and food]( [Estimate: $40,000-60,000 25 January, New York](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Jane Fonda, 2011. Photograph courtesy of Yu Tsai / Thornton Dial (1928-2016), Untitled, 1991. Wire, fabric and Splash Zone compound on canvas. 76 x 65 in. Estimate: $50,000-100,000. Offered in Outsider and Vernacular Art on 18 January 2023 at Christie’s in New York