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  • Virtual tour: 20th Century at Christie’s London

    Explore a breathtaking array of Impressionist and Modern art, to be offered in our forthcoming 20th Century Week auctions, 15-22 June

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  • The blazing comet that was Pauline Boty

    Novelist Ali Smith celebrates the tragically short life and pioneering work of Pauline Boty, whose Portrait of Derek Marlowe is offered in London on 19 June

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  • Why Britain was first to go Pop

    Pop art was not an all-American phenomenon — the UK, in fact, was where it started. Illustrated with works from our Modern British Art sales in June

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  • To gild or not to gild — that is the question

    Artists, patrons and critics have argued for centuries over the right way to frame a painting. Ultimately, it’s a matter of personal taste, says Andrew Graham-Dixon

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  • Quentin Blake on ‘doing things a writer can’t do’

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  • The first pieces of English Neoclassical furniture

    Christie’s is auctioning some of Thomas Chippendale's most iconic designs, 300 years since the birth of Britain’s most famous furniture maker