Online Magazine No.338

Works owned by S.I. Newhouse Jr., Hockney portraits, Cozomo de’ Medici, Barry Kamen, Rising contemporary artists, Rare C20 works, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [S.I. Newhouse Jr. — we preview the May sale of 16 masterpieces that range from Bacon to Picasso]( [Five contemporary artists on our radar: a mystic, a nature painter, a satirist and a pair of surrealists]( ‘ [Cozomo de’ Medici: the ‘grand patron of digital arts’ on Apes, AI and a donation to LACMA]( [Celia Birtwell on being pals with Hockney: ‘I asked who this chap was. He had an aura about him’]( [Buffalo stance — how the artist Barry Kamen became the face of Eighties British youth culture]( [Rare and overlooked: a quartet of particularly intriguing 20th-century works offered in London]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [There is an air of mystery about Caroline Walker’s 2013 painting The Puppeteer, a play of light, shadow and reflection. It shows three female figures, perhaps recalling the Fates, one of whom pulls on the straps of another’s bathing suit, giving the work its wry, slightly unsettling title]( [Estimate: £150,000-200,000 28 February, London]( [This 2021 iteration of Balloon Dog (Blue) by Jeff Koons is number 178 of an edition of 799. Monumental versions of the artist’s famous inflatable canine are cast in mirror-polished steel, but this 19-inch-high pup is made of metallic porcelain and needs to be handled with care]( [Estimate: £15,000-20,000 28 February to 14 March, Online]( [The Expressionist Max Pechstein declares himself an heir to Van Gogh in Morgensonne, painted in 1929. Depicting a lake near the Baltic coast, a place of escape for the artist far from the political turmoil of Berlin, it recalls the Dutch master in its blazing colours and radiating brushstrokes]( [Estimate: £550,000-800,000 3 March, London]( [These 19th-century horseshoe-back armchairs are made of huanghuali, known in the West as Chinese rosewood. The elegant simplicity of their U-shaped design is combined with subtle decorative touches: each chair has a floral motif on the backrest and intertwining stems carved into the panel below the seat]( [Estimate: $70,000-90,000 23-24 March, New York](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Self-Portrait, 1969. Oil on canvas. 14 x 12 in (35.6 x 30.5 cm). Estimate on request in excess of $20,000,000. Artwork: © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2023 / Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), L'Arlésienne (Lee Miller), 1937. Oil and Ripolin on canvas. 28⅞ x 23½ in (72.7 x 59.8 cm). Estimate on request in excess of $20,000,000. Artwork: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2023. Both offered in Masterpieces from the S.I. Newhouse Collection this May at Christie’s in New York // Dominique Fung, Plundered Tombs, 2022. Courtesy of Dominique Fung and Nicodim Gallery // Matt Hall and John Watkinson, CryptoPunk #3831, 2017 (detail). Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of the Cozomo de’ Medici Collection // Celia Birtwell and David Hockney in Paris, 1970. Photo: © Peter Schlesinger // Barry Kamen in his studio. Photograph by Kiyotaka Hatanaka for GRIND magazine // Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Adam und Eva, conceived in 1936 and cast after 1958. Height: 33¼ in (84.4 cm). Estimate: £150,000-250,000 / Hannah Höch (1889-1978), Der schöne Po, 1958. Photomontage on paper laid down on the artist's mount. Image: 14⅛ x 10¼ in (35.9 x 26 cm). Artist's mount: 19⅝ x 15⅞ in (49.8 x 40 cm). Estimate: £50,000-80,000 / Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), Netzflicker, 1928. Oil on canvas. 21¾ x 15⅞ in (55.3 x 40.3 cm). Estimate: £40,000-60,000 / Stella Snead (1910-2006), Ritual, 1992. Oil on canvas. 20 x 30 in (50.8 x 76.2 cm). Estimate: £10,000-15,000. All offered in the Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale on 3 March 2023 in London