Online Magazine No.351

Marlene Dietrich's bracelet, Ann and Gordon Getty's Temple of Wings, Moroccan modernists, Domaine Roumier Burgundy, An Old Master rediscovery, Classical Chinese furniture, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Marlene Dietrich: why this Van Cleef bracelet was the only jewel she kept throughout her long life]( [‘I would make decisions almost immediately’: collecting Chinese furniture the Robert Tang way]( ‘ [‘There was a feeling of newness’: when Moroccan artists took the reins at Casablanca Art School]( [Inside Ann and Gordon Getty’s Temple of Wings: a tour of art and objects in the blue parlour]( [Fabled Burgundy: why Domaine Roumier’s wines number among the most collectible in the world]( [Anne Vallayer-Coster: the artist favoured by Marie Antoinette and, later, the Empress Joséphine]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [As he approaches his 99th birthday, the self-taught Chinese artist Huang Yongyu can look back on a brilliantly successful career. He often focuses on the details of nature, whether flowers, foliage or animals; but Landscape, from 1984, looks at the bigger picture, with autumnal hills looming over the birds and livestock below]( [Estimate: HK$150,000-200,000 31 May, Hong Kong]( [Freddy the Fresh Guy has been the mascot of the Wonder Bread brand since the 1970s. David LaChapelle’s 2002 photograph Inflatables: Wonderbread features a giant Freddy figure seemingly rampaging through a quiet street, perhaps in pursuit of the model who is leaping past an overturned shopping trolley]( [Estimate: €7,000-9,000 until 6 June, Online]( [The American Op Art pioneer Richard Anuszkiewicz visited the Valley of the Kings in Egypt in 1981. He responded to the monumental geometry and vivid colours he encountered there with a series of ‘Temple’ paintings, among them this 1985 work, Temple of Pale Green, which seems to glow with an inner light]( [Estimate: €15,000-20,000 until 31 May, Online]( [This blue and white ‘fish’ dish, from the Wanli period (1573-1619), is alive with carp, a venerable Chinese symbol of perseverance and good fortune. As well as the two on the inside — one viewed sideways, the other from above — there are a further five swimming around the outside of the dish]( [Estimate: HK$100,000-150,000 30 May, Hong Kong](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Marlene Dietrich, c. 1940, wearing the Van Cleef & Arpels ‘Jarretière’ bracelet. Photograph by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images. TM & © 2023 M. Dietrich Inc. All Rights Reserved // Mohammed Chabâa, Untitled, 1965. Acrylic on canvas. Mohammed Chabâa estate. Photo Fouad Mazouz / Mohamed Melehi, Composition, 1970. Acrylic on cardboard. 120 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist, MACAAL and Fondation Alliances. Both works are exhibited in The Casablanca Art School, Tate St Ives, 27 May 2023 to 14 January 2024 // Vineyards of the Georges Roumier winery and the Clos Vougeot castle in Chambolle-Musigny, Burgundy, France. Photo: Eric Feferberg / AFP via Getty Images // Alexander Roslin (1718-1793), Portrait of Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1783. Oil on canvas. 73 x 61 cm. Private Collection. Photo: Bridgeman Images