Online Magazine No.356

20th/21st Century London sale results, Canova’s Helen of Troy, Mozart’s missive, Impressionism in Britain, Art and luxury trends, Specialists’ summer tips, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Canova’s bust of Helen: lauded by Byron as ‘the most perfectly beautiful of human conceptions’]( [Signac, Basquiat and Cecily Brown lead the way in 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale]( ‘ [Our specialists’ summer tips — favourite art exhibitions to see and best books to catch up with]( [Letter from a lovelorn Mozart: ‘I know of no better solution than to marry Constanze tomorrow’]( [Art and luxury trends — mystic painting, moon jars, Rothschild masterworks and generative art]( [How Impressionism crossed the English Channel and spread from Cornwall to the Cotswolds]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Duncan McCormick has described his paintings as being ‘like long-remembered daydreams’, and there is an uncanny quality to his 2019 work Bungalow, Bungalow, Bungalow… A vivid palette of glowing pinks, yellows and fiery reds gives a street of identical houses in an ordinary English suburb an otherworldly aura]( [Estimate: £5,000-7,000 until 5 July, Online]( [Standing nearly a metre high, this Louis XV ormolu and porcelain clock, from around 1750, is a monumental masterpiece. Amid the swirling gilt-metal Rococo foliage, clouds and multicoloured flowers is a Meissen Apollo driving the chariot of the sun pulled by four horses, while the angel of Fame sounds a trumpet above]( [Estimate: £150,000-250,000 6 July, London]( [Ancient art can often look surprisingly modern, as is the case with this Apulian red-figured fish plate. Made in southern Italy around 2,400 years ago, it depicts fish and shellfish — including a ray, a gurnard and a pilgrim scallop — with a simple economy that recalls mid-20th-century design]( [Estimate: £4,000-6,000 5 July, London]( [Carl Ludwig Christinek’s Portrait of Jane Gomm dates from 1766, when the sitter was 13. She became a lady-in-waiting to King George III’s wife Queen Charlotte, as well as Lady of the Manor of Rotherhithe. She left her estate to her nephew, Sir William Maynard Gomm, who served as a British army officer from the age of nine to 91]( [Estimate: £7,000-10,000 7 July, London](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Top left to right: Paul McCarthy, The Sound of Music (video still), 2001/2008. Video on DVD and Digi-Beta submaster. Duration: 175:00 min. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth © Paul McCarthy; Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians by Anna Reynolds, published by Royal Collection Trust / Camille Henrot, Family of Men, 2022. Bronze. 129⅞ x 98⅜ in (330 x 250 cm). Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth © Camille Henrot. Bottom left to right: Mini-mantua dress (puff dress) from the Moschino Ready to Wear Fall 2020 collection (Look 35 SS2020), exhibited in the Crown to Couture exhibition 2023. Photograph by Claire Collins © Historic Royal Palaces / Moschino / Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978, edited by Idurre Alonso, published by the Getty Research Institute / The Faces of Ruth Asawa at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Photograph by Glen Cheriton / Cartier: Beautés du Monde: High Jewelry and Precious Objects, by François Chaille and Alberto Cavalli, published by Flammarion // Tyler Hobbs (b. 1987), Fidenza #724, 2021. Archival digital pigment print on paper. 49¾ x 41⅞ in (126.5 x 106.4 cm). Sold for £365,400 on 28 February 2023 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: Courtesy of the artist // Harold Knight, R.A. (1874-1961), Land’s End. Oil on canvas. 23⅞ x 29⅞ in (60.7 x 76 cm). Estimate: £12,000-18,000. Offered in British and European Art on 13 July 2023 at Christie’s in London