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Post-War and Contemporary Art

Continuously setting new auction records, in 2022 Christie’s sold Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn for US$195 million, making it the most expensive work of 20th-century art ever to sell at auction.

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Collecting guide

Ten things to know about Yayoi Kusama

From her early Infinity Net paintings to her mirrored rooms, a short guide to the artist and her market.

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Anselm Kiefer and the poetry of Paul Celan

How a teenager’s discovery of Todesfuge shaped five decades of painting

Born in 1945 at the close of the Second World War, Kiefer came of age in a world ravaged by conflict. His practice represents a vast, wide-ranging reckoning with Germany’s past and the fate of humankind.

Celan’s poetry became a particular source of fascination after he discovered his seminal Todesfuge (Death Fugue) as a teenager.

A major exhibition in Paris

In 2022 Kiefer mounted a major exhibition of installations and paintings at the Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, dedicated to Celan.

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This is a copy of a christies.com page, set up to compare today’s type sizes with a proposal for new ones. Change the numbers until the page reads well at every width, then send us the link.

  1. Compare

    Before shows today’s sizes, which jump at set screen widths. After shows the proposal, where each size grows smoothly with the screen. Switch between them in the toolbar, or press T.

  2. Tune

    Each row in the Tune sizes panel is one size, set at three widths: 390px for a phone, 1440px for a laptop and 2560px for a large monitor. Type a number and the page changes as you type. Make the window narrower or wider to see the sizes in between.

  3. Check

    The coloured labels name the size each piece of text uses, and how far it is from Before. Point at a row in the panel to outline the text that uses it. Press D to hide the labels.

  4. Share

    Your numbers live in the page’s address and nowhere else, so nobody else’s page changes. Press Copy link and send it: whoever opens it sees your sizes.

Spacing, page margins and the layout on very wide screens stay on the proposal throughout, so the type is the only thing that changes. Back to the proposal in the panel undoes your changes.