Christie’s 4/27/24

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



‘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



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



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



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


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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






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






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






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