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Explore Art, Culture, and Collectibles: Christie’s Online Magazine No.388

by Jacqueline A. O'Neill · April 30, 2024

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Winning watches — unique timepieces from the collection of racing driver Michael Schumacher

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‘Everything he did was about truth’: art owned by Norman Lear, the man behind 100+ TV classics

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Archie Moore’s kith and kin: how the Golden Lion winner addresses the unwritten history of Australia

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Ana Mendieta and the power of nature — ‘I use the Earth as my canvas, my soul as an instrument’

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‘The swan song of one of the great English collections’: wines adored by the legendary Averys of Bristol

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René Magritte and his lifelong quest ‘to force objects out of the ordinary, to become sensational’

Editor’s picks

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Portraiture is a painstaking art: it took no fewer than 17 sittings over the course of four years for George Romney to complete his Portrait of Mrs Susannah Whatman, dating from 1782. It was a badge of honour to sit for Romney, a painter in fashion thanks to a roster of high-society clients including the Duke of Richmond and his friends

Estimate: $80,000-120,000
23 May, New York

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Designed to cling to the wearer’s shoulder like a miniature pet, this rare René Boivin ‘Lion couché’ brooch dates from around 1985. With diamond claws, emerald eyes and a mane of marquise-cut sapphires, the 18ct-gold feline is based on a drawing by Jacques Bernard, who took over the running of Boivin in 1976

Estimate: CHF 200,000-400,000
15 May, Geneva

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The glory, drama and looming menace of nature can all be found in the works of Bernd Zimmer. An abstracted landscape from 1982, Nebel, Sonne (‘Fog, Sun’) presents a tumultuous vision reminiscent of a stormy sea, as swirling fog clears momentarily to allow red and yellow sunlight to flash on the side of a mountain

Estimate: €7,000-10,000
until 30 April, Online

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Laurits Andersen Ring has been described as ‘the painter of roads par excellence in Danish art’, and a sunlit thoroughfare is the subject of his 1893 canvas Village Street. It also features a figure in the clogs and apron of a working man — another recurrent theme for the artist, who was a carpenter’s son

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
23 May, New York

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