Online Magazine No.345

Abstract works from the Gerald Fineberg Collection, Antique Oriental carpets, Buying AI art, Islamic painting, Domaine Armand Rousseau, Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Gerald Fineberg’s far-reaching abstract art collection: from the Ninth Street Women to Gutai]( [King Solomon meets the Queen of Sheba: but why is he a ringer for a certain prince Baysunghur?]( ‘ [Interior design from the ground up: how an antique Oriental carpet can transform your space]( [Good collectors don’t follow trends, they set them — our guide to AI and generative art]( [Bewitching Burgundy: the wines of Domaine Armand Rousseau, darling of the secondary market]( [The mystical, biological and curiously parallel worlds of Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Born in Tokyo, Atsushi Kaga went to art school in Dublin and now divides his time between Ireland and Japan. His 2022 painting #family mart #kyoto takes a real-life setting outside a brightly lit supermarket and populates it with cartoonish monkeys, a black cat and a tiger carrying a rabbit in a sling]( [Estimate: HK$120,000-220,000 until 20 April, Online]( [Jean Paul Gaultier introduced the Shearling Kelly, a whimsical reinterpretation of an iconic handbag, when he was creative director at Hermès in 2005. This limited-edition example, edged with fleece, has the cuddly-toy quality that earned the bag its nickname, the ‘Teddy Kelly’]( [Estimate: €26,000-30,000 until 26 April, Online]( [Sally Michel Avery was 75 in 1977, when she painted Curious Cows. With its naturalistic cattle in a field of vivid pink edged with burnt orange, it speaks of half a century spent in pursuit of a modernist vision, shared with her husband Milton, whereby familiar subjects are shown in innovative ways]( [Estimate: $5,000-7,000 21 April, New York]( [This gilt-brass and cut-glass inkwell was made to celebrate the coronation of Queen Victoria, which took place in June 1838. A miniature version of St Edward’s Crown, the centrepiece of the British Crown Jewels, it opens up to reveal the bottle within, topped with a profile of the monarch]( [Estimate: £500-800 until 18 April, Online](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), East Hampton III, 1977. Oil on canvas. 30 x 36 in (76.2 x 91.4 cm). Estimate: $6,000,000-8,000,000 / Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), Untitled, 1959-1960. Oil and charcoal on canvas. 90 x 70 in (228.6 x 177.8 cm). Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000 / Dan Flavin (1933-1996), Untitled (to Piet Mondrian), 1985. Red, yellow and blue fluorescent light. 96 x 9½ x 4¾ in (244 x 24.1 x 12.1 cm). Estimate: $200,000-300,000 / Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994), Ammazzare il tempo, 1979. Embroidery on canvas, in 49 parts. 46⅜ x 49⅞ in (117.6 x 126.7 cm). Estimate: $2,500,000-3,500,000 / Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Untitled, c. 1956-1959. Oil on canvas. 58 x 65 in (147.3 x 165.1 cm). Estimate: $6,000,000-8,000,000 / Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008), Hoshōkai (Lop Nur), 1988. Oil on canvas. 71⅛ x 89⅜ in (181 x 227 cm). Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. All offered in A Century of Art: The Gerald Fineberg Collection Part I in May 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Roope Rainisto (b. 1979), Swan Dive, minted on 11 March 2023. Non-fungible token. Offered in The Next Wave: The New York Edit, 12-19 April 2023 at Christie’s Online // Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), The Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation / Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Metamorphosis, 1908. Kunstmuseum Den Haag