Christie’s Classic Week overs an extraordinary look at some of the world’s top old masters – from Rubens masterpiece Lot and his Two Daughters which is in view for the first time in a century (the sale will take place at Christie’s London) to a fascinating exhibit named An Inquiring Mind: American Collecting of Japanese and Korean Art. The Classic Week goes from Antiquities, Sculpture, with a contrasting mix artists like Clyfford Still.
Background: A Hendrik Frans Van Lint waiting. (Called LO STUDIO). Baccus and Ariadne on the Island of Naxos.Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun: Portrait of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), bust-length, in a trompe l’oeil stone niche. A Kawari Kabuto (Exotic Helmet). Momoyama period (Late 16th century).A Roman sleeping beauty at Christie’s Classic Week.Foreground – Right: Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun (Paris 1755-1842). Maria Grigorievna Viazemskaia, Princess Golitsyna (1772-1865), seated three-quarter-lengh.Jean-Leon Gerome (Vesoul. Haute-Saone 1824-1904 Paris) Washington a cheval (‘Washington on his horse’). Bronze, dark brown patina.A tinted plaster bust of Napoleon Bonaparte as first consul by Joseph Chinard (Lyon 1756-1813), 1801.Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Called EL GRECO. (Crete 1541-1614) Toledo). The Entombment of Christ.A colossal Roman marble portrait head of the emperor Hadrian. Reign 117-138 A.D.An important large Roman inlaid bronze Bacchus. Circa 2nd Century A.D.Christie’s Classic Week: April 8-15, 2016A Roman marble Venus. Circa 1st Century B.C., 1st Century A.D.An important Egyptian wood figure of a lady. Middle kingdom. Early 12th dynasty. Circa 1981-1802 B.C.Foreground: An attic red-figured Nolan amphora, attributed to the Berlin painter, circa 470 B.C.Contemporary artwork by Clyfford Still mixed with Classic Week at Christie’s.
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