Online Magazine No.346

Hockney landscapes, Jasper Johns from the S.I. Newhouse Collection, F.P. Journe watches, Colour Field artists, Earth Day 2023, Watch specialist interview, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Hockney’s spirit of place: three vivid, 21st-century landscapes from Paul G. Allen’s collection]( [Why Jasper Johns’s reinvention and boundary pushing made him Si Newhouse’s perfect artist]( ‘ [Fewer than 1,000 innovative F.P. Journe watches are made each year — here’s how to find yours]( [Nici Teweles’s ‘thesis on colour’ — assembled with help from her brother, dealer André Emmerich]( [Earth Day 2023: how one artist turns waste from our oceans into thought-provoking installations]( [‘I never tire of the thrill of handling something rare’: meet our watch specialist, Remy Julia]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [It was the Pacific Ocean off Venice Beach that inspired Rainer Fetting’s 2004 painting Large Surfscape with Pelicans. The German artist had spent three months there in 2002, noting that ‘I was able to plunge deeper into my surf paintings because I could watch surfers every day in front of my hotel’]( [Estimate: €25,000-35,000 until 25 April, Online]( [Appearing in both the Old Testament and the Qur’an, the story of Yusuf, or Joseph (of Technicolor Dreamcoat fame), was retold by the Persian poet Jami in Yusuf and Zulaykha. This 16th-century miniature illustrates the scene where Yusuf, having interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh, is invited to join the Egyptian ruler on the throne]( [Estimate: £10,000-15,000 27 April, London]( [The savoury blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc in this magnum of Screaming Eagle 2013 earned it a 99-point rating from Decanter magazine. The vineyard, in California’s Napa Valley, is famous for big wines in tiny quantities, with only a few hundred cases released each year]( [Estimate: £4,500-6,000 25 April, London]( [For Bart van der Leck, the Dutch artist and co-founder of De Stijl, abstract images came from representational ones. The 1921 lithograph Fruitmand (Fruit bowl) is a brilliant example, with the shapes and colours of a bowl of apples fragmenting into a meticulous array of red, yellow and blue geometric forms]( [Estimate: $500-700 until 25 April, Online](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( David Hockney (b. 1937), The Gate, 2000. Oil on canvas. 60 x 76 in (152.4 x 193 cm). © David Hockney. Estimate: $6,000,000-8,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 11 May 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Jasper Johns in his studio, 1971. Photo: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images. Artwork © 2023 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY // Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), Flux No. 4 — A Cycle of Oil Paintings,1962. Oil on Upson board. 31¾ x 23⅞ in (80.5 x 60.2 cm). With permission of the Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $70,000-100,000 / Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), The Red Wall, 1972. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. 72 x 72 in (182.9 x 182.9 cm). © 2023 Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Estimate: $1,500,000-2,000,000 / Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), Genuine Blue, 1970-1971. Acrylic and marker on canvas. 91 x 93 in (231.1 x 236.2 cm). © 2023 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000 / Sam Francis (1923-1994), Untitled, 1984. Acrylic on canvas. 41⅞ x 54 in (106.2 x 137.2 cm). © 2023 Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Estimate: $200,000-300,000 / Josef Albers (1888-1976), Homage to the Square: Intrepid, 1950. Oil on Masonite, in artist's frame. 24⅜ x 24⅜ in (61.7 x 61.7 cm). © 2023 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $300,000-500,000. All offered in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale on 12 May 2023 at Christie’s in New York