An intimate vision of Emin’s experience with cancer, the work will be sold to help fund studio spaces and courses for artists in her home town
How the creator of some of the 20th century’s most recognisable images became a countercultural icon, feted by Stanley Kubrick and Mick Jagger
Eda Kehale Argun, Christie’s representative consultant in Istanbul, and specialist Marie-Claire Thijsen select eight artists with growing reputations
Drawings and collages by the revolutionary French designer reveal his restless artistic vision
A guide to arguably South America’s most famous artist, whose work addresses everything from domestic life to bullfighting
We look back at some of the many portraits of a monarch whose reign encompassed 70 years of artistic change
The life and art of the world’s most famous street artist. Illustrated with lots offered at Christie’s
A guide to the Catalan’s prolific and endlessly creative printmaking oeuvre, illustrated with works offered at Christie’s
‘Her prices are definitely appreciating,’ says specialist Nishad Avari of an artist likened to Marc Chagall
This collection of Melville artefacts explores the writer’s influences and, his life of adventure
Beatriz Milhazes’s paintings are brilliantly evocative of Brazil — while also showing the influence of European art
A leading figure of Neo-Expressionism, the artist defies categorization with his complex symbolic visual language
As he nears the age of 72, the British sculptor is more passionate than ever about making art that connects with people and places
The extraordinary life of the trail-blazing artist described by her contemporaries as the quintessential Impressionist
A guide to the glassmaking genius of René Lalique, whose designs embraced Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism
Lusieri’s work delighted the likes of Byron and Elgin, and three views of Rome offered on 5 July confirm his reputation as a master of landscape
One of Canova’s last sculptures spent most of the 20th century in obscurity, sitting in the front garden of an antique dealer’s London home
The largest and perhaps most ambitious of 12 extant Nymph paintings by the German master is also one of the last in private ownership
In the midst of an ongoing war, legal disputes and personal problems, Rembrandt produced ‘one of his most moving works in any medium’
Few art historians have as much insight into Basquiat as Vienna-born Dieter Buchhart. Here he shares his thoughts on an untitled self-portrait
Although he came to printmaking relatively late, by the end of his life the artist had produced more than 1,000 lithographs and over 500 etchings
Created in collaboration with models covered in paint, Klein’s Anthropométries were both provocative and groundbreaking
Specialists Anna Touzin and Isabel Millar pick five abstract artists with reputations on the rise from across Christie’s upcoming sales
Marc Chagall lived through two world wars and was aged 97 when he died in 1985. Alastair Smart examines the luminous twilight of his long career
A deep dive into the life of Impressionism’s founding father, illustrated with masterpieces offered at Christie’s
With two of Dumas’s works featuring in our Art of Literature exhibition, we survey the provocative South African’s career
The British artist is best known for his depictions of horses, but was also a skilled portraitist. Illustrated with works offered at Christie’s
The French-American artist rebelled against artistic tradition and forged her own emancipatory visual language
Monet made several visits to London at different stages of his life, and created well over 100 paintings while staying there
As the 50th anniversary of the Spanish master’s death approaches, we delve into each of his defining styles