Sale 5424
Paris
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31 May - 1 June 2006
Price realised
EUR 84
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
NEUF VIDE-POCHES En bronze et métal doré, quatre simulant une tête de chouette et cinq une tête de chat Largeur du plus grand: 13 cm. (5 1/8 in.) (9)
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Post Lot Text
NINE VIDE-POCHES
Nick Orchard, Head of Modern British & Irish Art, discusses the fascinating provenance of this unusual industrial landscape
Offered on 23 January, a splendid collection of paintings, prints and drawings by Modern British artists including Ivon Hitchens, Winifred Nicholson and John Nash
From craquelure to patina, watermarks to brushstrokes… Our specialists on what they’re looking for when someone brings a work of art into Christie’s
As this 1941 watercolour by Eric Ravilious is offered in London, Meredith Etherington-Smith examines how artists helped to develop ‘dazzle’ camouflage
We go inside the foundation created 40 years ago by the printing entrepreneur and collector Daniel Terra
Explore works by the leading British artists and sculptors of the 20th century, to be offered over three auctions in London from 21–23 January