Doug Aitken (b. 1968)

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  • Francis Bacon’s Study for Portrait

    Francis Bacon's poignant celebration of George Dyer, the artist's most important subject, will star in Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 17 May

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  • ‘Capturing a feeling of creation’: Jeff Koons on Play-Doh

    The artist tells us about his meticulous recreation of a child’s toy in a work that became an instant icon when it debuted at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2014

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  • CoBrA: the last true avant-garde movement of the 20th century

    In the 70th year since its founding, we look back on the movement’s brief, furious life. On 23 and 24 April, 20 works by the group will be offered in Amsterdam

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  • Collecting guide: West Coast art

    From Hockney to Baldessari, Ruscha to Thiebaud — how the countercultural figures who flocked to California in the Sixties became art establishment names

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  • Collecting Guide: Lalique

    Specialist Joy McCall answers key questions for collectors of the glassmaker’s exquisite pieces. Illustrated with lots offered in the Lalique sale on 15 May

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  • A leap into space: Malevich’s Suprematist Composition

    Offered in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art