16 ★ FTWeekend 26 October/27 October 2019
China’s Wang Hao scored an
unlikely but deserved
victory in the $430,000
Fide/Chess.com Isle of Man
tournament this week as the
30-year-old from Harbin
won first prize on tiebreak.
Wang and the world No2
Fabiano Caruana scored
8/11, half a point ahead of
the world champion Magnus
Carlsen and others.
It was the performance of
Wang’s life, and owed little
to luck as he drew twice in
winning positions. He now
qualifies for the eight-man
2020 candidatesto decide
Carlsen’s nextchallenger.
Wang Hao has been out of
favour with Chinese chess
officials and has been
omitted from the national
team. He had no trainer
with him, and prepared
alone with a computer.
Carlsen went through the
11 rounds unbeaten, set a
record of 101 consecutive
games without loss against
elite opposition, but was still
dissatisfied: “The streak wasnice, but the performance
was mediocre at best.”
England’s David Howell,
who began slowly then had a
run of wins, could havereached the candidatesin
the final roundagainst Wang
but blundered and lost.
2338
White mates in four, with
just a single sequence
needed. Black is down to the
pawn moves b7-b6 and g6-
g5. However, his king is snug
in the white camp at g1 and
if White discovers check
with Nd3/c2+ then Kxg2
and there is no mate. Can
you find White’s hidden
four-move sequence?
Solution, back page1.
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1 An evangelical denomination
founded in 1838 (8,6)
9 Devices on boats that lift
them out of the water at
high speeds (10)
10 A type of drinking cup or
pottery horn with a hole in
the point for the drinker (6)
11 A celebratory gathering,
especially of Scouts or
Guides (8)
12 A penitential psalm often
sung in Lent (8)
13 An Australian warbler or a S
American hummingbird (9)
14 Igor, foreign minister of
Russia from 1998 to 2004 (6)
15 A showy piece of music
played with great skill (7)
17 A former title for a civil
official in Turkey (7)
20 Name of a Saxon kingdom
that came to be associated
with Thomas Hardy (6)
21 Exhortation (9)
23 Order of animals that are
spherical with stiff radiating
pseudopods (8)
25 A type of orchid with large
flowers (8)
26 A religious (often Muslim)
holy man, sometimes a
wonder-worker (6)
27 Like articles sold for
publication to several
different newspapers (10)
28 The phenomenon of
magnetic flux reduction
when a superconductor
is cooled below its critical
temperature (8,6)DOWN
1 This member of the
government is usually a
minister without portfolio
(9,7)
2 The domesticated Asiatic
buffalo (7)
3 In Scottish law, a female who
is entitled to a revenue until
she dies (4-7)
4 The absence or impairment
of the power of voluntary
movement (8)
5 An early type of structure
that might have excited Don
Quixote? (4,4)
6 The Florentine or other iris
or its dried rootstock (5)
7 This could be a Victoria
sponge (5,4)
8 An ancient means of
administering justice
at markets and fairs for
piepowders (5,2,5,4)
14 The right of arresting and
fining a type of criminal
within the boundary of one’s
own jurisdiction (11)
16 An entrance hall (9)
18 “Mene, mene, tekel -------
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during Belshazzar’s Feast (8)
19 Anton, composer (1824-96)
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22 A woven edge of a fabric (7)
24 Japanese sandals consisting
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(6)
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perhaps? (4,4)
9 Athlete in the groove? (6)
10 Cursed, old bird (8)
12 European * leader? (4,4)
13 Brief avian activity (6)
15 Some recollection of mine,
delightful garden (4)
16 Garnish in a stew for dishing
out equally (7)
20 Fetching up (7)
21 Centre of wall, very much on
top (4)
25 In the moat, not all swimming
(2,4)
26 Sword put by leader of
Macdonalds into heart (8)
28 Variation of Elgar, it includes
new instrument (8)
29 Go like a trading vehicle? (6)
30 Bloody little thing behind fifty
favourite dresses (8)
31 North-eastern direction most
fresh (6)DOWN
1 Short of money in bonds,
perhaps? (8)
2 More complicated, relating to
dance (8)
3 Tuck remarkable skirts into bag
(6)
5 Mate matey, though not at first
(4)
6 Offload fish in food parcel (8)
7 Oddly, a mum not like – her
sister? (6)
8 Adequate figure raised, I’m
disgusted (6)
11 Stylish running (7)
14 Shocking in race, to be honest
(7)
17 Sparkly girl on volcano,
climbing? (8)
18 Line four switched for nine on
the periodic table (8)
19 I don’t care about me? Not
entirely (8)
22 Computer fitting in dock (6)
23 Female boxer standing for
Victoria’s girl? (6)
24 Primate OK to repeat (3-3)
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France’s share of the global art market
may be small (6 per cent at the latest
count) but the mood was high ahead of
this year’s Fiac art fair (Grand Palais,
October 17-20). Paris is benefiting from
a Brexit bounce as dealers test out
alternatives to London. Museum shows
in town, including Francis Bacon at the
Centre Pompidou (to January 20), Kiki
Smith at the Monnaie de Paris (to
February 9) andthe Louvre’s Leonardo
da Vinci retrospective (to February
24), contributed to the city’s
impressive cultural credentials during
the fair.
Top-level sales were swiftly reported
from Fiac including, at Thaddaeus
Ropac, Robert Rauschenberg’s
“Everglade (Borealis)” (1990) for
$1.7m and two new paintings by Yan
Pei-Ming (€560,000 each), who had
coinciding exhibitions at both the
Musée d’Orsay (to January 12) and the
Petit Palais opposite the fair (to
January 19).
Business was also done at the
smaller-sized galleries but some
pointed out that their market —
whether in Paris or elsewhere in the
world — is not as rosy as the top-level
transactions suggest. “Not everyone
has big, flashy pieces that they can
bring to art fairs. There is energy in the
art market, but it doesn’t feel like a
gold rush,” cautioned Saskia Draxler,
co-founder of Germany’s Galerie Nagel
Draxler. She was, however, happy to
report the sale of a work in the fair’s
Fiac Projects display in the Petit Palais:
Heimo Zobernig’s 1991 installation of
16 cardboard cubes, priced at
€300,000, sold to a “fantastic private
German collection”, she said.Galleries in Fiac’s main ground-floor
section mostly played it safe, though
there was some discovery to be had
through the 10 exhibitors in its Secteur
Lafayette section on the first floor.
Business was being made here too:
east London’s Soft Opening
gallery reported “some sales” of its
birthday cake-like castles, made out
of Fimo modelling clay, by the
up-and-coming Swiss artist Gina
Fischli (€3,500-€5,000).
Among the satellite fairs, there was
plenty of enthusiasm for Asia Now and
the nearby Paris Internationale (both
October 16-20), to which exhibitors
brought enerally lower-priced artists.g
The Hong Kong and Los Angeles
gallery Over The Influence sold outits
Asia Now booth of works by theKorea-
born Anna Park (€9,000 each): Paris
proved a more friendly environment at
the moment than its Hong Kong
gallery. At Paris Internationale,offers work for the first time with nine
lots in the same auction, including an
oil painting, “Tiger and Stag” (1970),
that was in the artist’s well-received
Tate Modern retrospective in 2016 (est
$425,000-$710,000). Khakhar’s work
has been flying high at auction since
this show.
The sale as a whole is estimated to
make $5.9m-$8.2m, a reflection of
India’s steady art market this past year.
Sotheby’s made a total $7.9m (within
estimate) at its inaugural sale in
Mumbai last year. Its standing in the
region was threatened, however, when
Gaurav Bhatia, managing director of its
India operations, resigned at the end of
the year following sexual misconduct
allegations (he did not comment on
these in his resignation statement).
Now, says Ishrat Kanga, who heads up
the auction house’s South Asian art
sales, “We are on a positive trajectory
and have had an incredible year.”Object & Thing, a modern and
contemporary design and art fair that
launched in New York this year, will
partner with the city’s 11th edition of
Independent (March 6-8, 2020).
Object & Thing’s director Abby
Bangser plans to show about 30 works
along a mezzanine floor in the Spring
Studios building, with fine art selected
from Independent’s exhibitors while
design pieces will come from other
galleries and studios, including the
local Tribeca specialists R & Company
and Patrick Parrish. There will be an
approximate 50/50 split between art
and design, says Bangser, who was
artistic director of Frieze New York
from 2015 to 2017, though she notes
there is increasing fluidity between
the disciplines.
Object & Thing works on a
consignment model so that gallerists
don’t need to be at the fair or pay
upfront to show their work. Organisers
curate the works and instead take an
unspecified cut of any sales made. The
fair’s well-received first edition was
held in Brooklyn in May but, Bangser
says, she is scouting Manhattan for its
second edition in May 2020. Of the
Independent collaboration, Bangser
says that she was thrilled when co-
founders Elizabeth Dee and
Matthew Higgs approached
her with the idea. She
describes both fairs as “new
models” with “a clarified
point of view”. Dee says that
“conversations about design
have grown stronger these
past few years and we
wanted to work out how to
engage with that.”Heimo Zobernig’s installation of 16 cardboard cubes (1991), displayed at Fiac. Below, Gina Fischli’s ‘Capital House’ (2019) —Simon Vogel; Theo ChristelisParis feels a Brexit bounce
The Art Market Sotheby’s set for Mumbai 2.0;|
new-model art fairs join forces; safe works at Fiac,
but adventure elsewhere in Paris. ByMelanie Gerlis
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910 7 63 2seventh edition of the Outsider Art Fair
in Paris fielded a selection of largely
unknown creators, in keeping with the
nature of its marginal, but increasingly
popular, field. Highlights included
papier maché works by the Emirati
artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim at
Lawrie Shabibi (up to €11,000).It’s full steam ahead for Sotheby’s
second auction in Mumbai, for which
consignors include the Indian celebrity
Sabira Merchant and the estate ofartist
Bhupen Khakhar, who died in 2003.
Merchant, a former primetime game-
show host and now n etiquettea
coach to Miss India, is selling
Vasudeo S Gaitonde’s
“Untitled” (1974),
estimated at $3m-$3.9m.
She and her late
husband bought the
work in 1975 and it is
now the top-priced
item in Sotheby’s 61-lot
auction on November
15 (Taj Mahal Palace).
Khakhar’s estateCarlos/Ishikawa sold both of its new
works by the RA Schools graduate Issy
Wood (a small painting at $5,000 and a
large, two-part work at $35,000) while
London’s Union Pacific saw roaring
trade for works by its Russian-born
artist Aks Misyuta (from €2,700).
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