Christie’s 4/6/24

a a go’: Shane Akeroyd on his collection of moving-image art



‘Like stepping into the 1937 Paris Auto Salon’: the making of Peter Mullin’s collection of classic cars


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‘For sheer artistry, they will never be surpassed’: the Londoner who fell in love with Silk Road carpets



Flower power: five artists, from Georgia O’Keeffe to Charles Sheeler, besotted with blooms



‘It’s like a big, fast conversation’: six decades of Ed Ruscha’s art on show in NOW THEN at LACMA



‘Revered above painting’ — how the written word has been elevated to an art form in the Islamic world


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Performers often appear in the work of Brooklyn-born artist Walt Kuhn, one of the organisers of the avant-garde Armory show of 1913. His 1930 painting Woman with Guitar, like his depictions of acrobats, dancers and clowns, treats its subject in such a way as to assert the dignity of people in roles often considered trivial

Estimate: $12,000-18,000
18 April, New York






Meissen figures of a Bulgarian lady and a Hungarian gentleman adorn this pair of Louis XV candelabra, made around 1750. They were among the treasures of Whitemarsh Hall, the 147-room Palladian mansion built by Edward and Eva Stotesbury near Philadelphia, which was known as ‘the Versailles of America’

Estimate: $10,000-15,000
17 April, New York






In Albert Marquet’s Venice, from 1936, the grandeur of the city’s architecture takes second place to its natural setting. The majestic church of Santa Maria della Salute, viewed from the water, is in the centre of the picture; but the mighty lagoon and the cloud-streaked sky above are the main subjects of the work

Estimate: €60,000-80,000
10 April, Paris






This painting from Mughal Indiashows a deer beside a zig-zagging river in a stylised landscape, with hazy domes on the horizon. It illustrates a tale in which a prince, Raj Kunwar, falls in love with an elusive woman who can transform herself magically into a doe — which explains the jewellery the animal is wearing

Estimate: £8,000-12,000
25 April, London