Online Magazine No.339

London 20th/21st Century Evening sales top £167m, Pauline Boty, Monuments Women, CURA Art, A Pacific island collection, Works by women artists, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [London 20th/21st Century Art evening sales achieve £167m / $202m; seven new artist records]( [Pauline Boty — why demand for the ‘very clever, early feminist’ Pop artist is at ‘an all-time high’]( ‘ [International Women’s Day: the Monuments Women who strove for the restitution of stolen art]( [Eleven works by women artists and designers: from a Perriand bookcase to a Lalanne bracelet]( [A Pacific island ‘refuge’ — filled with ‘cultural driftwood’ that resonates with its volcanic vistas]( [‘Contemporary patronage is about relationships’ — meet the duo pairing collectors and artists]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Anna Weyant has said that her works are often defined by ‘low-stakes trauma’. Untitled, from 2019, fits that description, its young female subject appearing only slightly miffed by the spilt jug in front of her. A mysterious hand raising a flower in a vase from under the table suggests the hazy logic of a dream]( [Estimate: $200,000-300,000 10 March, New York]( [The rhythmic quality of Olga Albizu’s paintings, such as 1973’s Untitled, has long been noted. The art critic and curator José Gómez-Sicre wrote in 1966 that her ‘flat splashes of pure colour’ were ‘suggestive of syncopation’, and her work has appeared on the covers of albums by Stan Getz, João Gilberto and other stars of the bossa nova scene]( [Estimate: $40,000-60,000 9 March, New York]( [Furniture designer, architect, interiors expert (with Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman among her clients) and later a lecturer at UCLA, Greta Magnusson-Grossman was a pioneer in a number of male-dominated fields. Her elegant ‘Grasshopper’ floor lamp, dating from the late 1940s, is a classic of mid-century modernism]( [Estimate: $3,000-5,000 until 15 March, Online]( [Ghostly cats seem part of an imagined landscape beneath a red-orange sun in Alice Rahon’s Los Gatos, painted in 1953. Born in France, Rahon found artistic freedom with a move to Mexico in 1939. In this work, as in many others, she added sand to her oils, lending it the quality of an ancient cave painting]( [Estimate: $25,000-35,000 until 14 March, Online](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Pauline Boty, 1963. Photo: © Michael Seymour / National Portrait Gallery, London. Artwork: Courtesy of the Pauline Boty Estate // Maria Altmann. Photo: Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images / Rose Valland, 1946. Photo: Alamy / Anne Olivier Bell, 2006. Photo: Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images / Desiree Goudstikker, 1946. Photo: Penta Springs/Alamy // Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), Important Bibliothèque, c. 1955. Oak, painted steel, painted aluminum. 62 x 109¼ x 18⅛ in (157.5 x 277.5 x 46 cm). Estimate: $150,000-250,000. Offered in Art of Collecting: A Pacific Island Connoisseur of Art and Design on 7 March 2023 at Christie’s in New York / Sarah Crowner (b. 1974), Untitled, 2013. Oil and gouache on sewn canvas, linen and cloth. 36⅛ x 30¼ in (91.8 x 76.8 cm). Estimate: $30,000-50,000. Offered in Post-War to Present on 10 March 2023 at Christie’s in New York / Claude Lalanne (1924-2019), ‘Hosta’ bracelet, c. 1970. Galvanized copper and bronze. 2 in (5.1 cm) high; 2⅞ in (7.3 cm) diameter. Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Offered in Modern Collector: Design, Tiffany Studios, and Property from a Pacific Island Connoisseur, 1-15 March 2023 at Christie’s online / Genesis Tramaine (b. 1983), Saint Barnabas, 2019. Acrylic, oil stick and spray paint on canvas. 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 122 cm). Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Offered in Post-War to Present on 10 March 2023 at Christie’s in New York / Maria Pergay (b. 1930), ‘Lit Tapis Volant (Flying Carpet Daybed)’, c. 1968. Stainless steel, fur, fabric, casters. 14½ x 47¼ x 117½ in (36.8 x 120 x 298.5 cm). Estimate: $70,000-100,000. Offered in ADAM: Works from the Collection of Adam Lindemann on 9 March 2023 at Christie’s in New York / Miyoko Ito (1918-1983), Untitled (#118), c. 1975. Oil and charcoal on canvas. 46 x 31⅞ in (116.8 x 81 cm). Estimate: $40,000-60,000. Offered in ADAM: Works from the Collection of Adam Lindemann on 9 March 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Photography by Günter Pfannmüller, Frankfurt // CURA Art founders. Photo: Jayne West