Online Magazine No.340

American Modernists, Chinese furniture, the Vorticists, Rare culinary tomes, A Korean moon jar, Young London gallerists, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [‘Their work was wonderfully original’: American Modernists beloved of composer Ted Shen]( [Why this 18th-century moon jar, one of only 30 or so still existing, is the epitome of Korean culture]( ‘ [‘One foot in the past and one in the future’: the gallerists showing radical art in historic St James’s]( [‘At the heart of the whirlpool’ — were Vorticists the most avant-garde artists Britain has known?]( [Chinese furniture guide: how to tell huanghuali from zitan, joinery, polishing, humidifiers and more]( [Chef’s special — culinary tomes that chronicle French cuisine, from stuffed swans to Escoffier]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [The 1947 painting Glasgow Docks is one of very few in which L.S. Lowry depicted that city, yet it has much in common with his other images of industrial life. The maritime setting must have been an added draw. As he once said, ‘I’ve always been fond of the sea. How wonderful it is, yet also how terrible’]( [Estimate: £1,100,000-1,500,000 21 March, London]( [This Roger Dubuis ‘Too Much’ watch, from around 2007, is a limited-edition variant on a style introduced five years earlier. With its rectangular face and lavish materials, the ‘Too Much’ came in many opulent iterations, but this one is notable for spelling out its name in rubies]( [Estimate: HK$24,000-50,000 until 20 March, Online]( [It is likely that Peter Paul Rubens made this Study of a Kneeling Man Seen in Profile for a specific composition in the 1610s, but it isn’t known which one. Both a masterful drapery study and a portrait of a man in thought, it might represent a shepherd or St Joseph from a Nativity scene]( [Estimate: €250,000-350,000 22 March, Paris]( [The artist Invader has placed mosaics of video-game space invaders in cities worldwide. The largest of these, showing only part of an invader, appeared in Paris in 2019. 3D Little Big Space is a vinyl sculpture of what that would look like in full, but at two per cent of its actual size]( [Estimate: £700-1,000 until 14 March, Online](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Stuart Davis (1892-1964), Analogical Emblem, c. 1935. Gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper. 15¼ x 22¼ in (38.7 x 56.5 cm). Estimate: $120,000-180,000 / Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), On the Beach, c. 1940-41. Oil on Masonite. 22 x 28 in (55.9 x 71.1 cm). Estimate: $1,500,000-2,500,000 / John Marin (1870-1953), Lobster Boat, Cape Split, Maine, 1938. Oil on canvas. 22 x 28 in (55.9 x 71.1 cm). Estimate: $600,000-800,000 / August Mosca (1909-2003), Under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1945. Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 in (76.2 x 60.9 cm). Estimate: $7,000-10,000 / Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), Lavender & Green Hill—Ghost Ranch, 1935. Oil on board. 8 x 13½ in (20.3 x 34.3 cm). Estimate: $600,000-800,000 / Joseph Stella (1877-1946), Brooklyn Bridge. Crayon and pencil over photograph. 17 x 15¼ in (43.2 x 38.7 cm). Estimate: $50,000-70,000. All offered in Modern American Masterworks from the Ted Shen Collection on 21 April 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Arthur Yates and Phoebe Saatchi Yates. Photo courtesy of Saatchi Yates // Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Dancing Figures, 1914 (detail). Pencil, ink, crayon, gouache and oil on paper. 8 x 19¾ in (20.3 x 50.2 cm). Estimate: £80,000-120,000. Offered in the Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale on 21 March 2023 at Christie’s in London