Online Magazine No.388

Michael Schumacher’s watches, Norman Lear’s art, Ana Mendieta, Australia in Venice, Avery family wine, Magritte, and more | [Christie's]( [BUY]( | [SELL]( | [STORIES]( [Christie's] [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]( ‘ [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’]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [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](   © [Christie’s 2024]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Michael Schumacher on the podium at the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix, 29 August 2004. Photo: dpa picture alliance / Alamy // Norman Lear, Los Angeles, 1984. Photo: Bob Riha Jr / Getty Images // Artist Archie Moore with kith and kin, 2024, Australia Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024. Photographer: Andrea Rossetti. © The artist. Image courtesy of the artist and The Commercial // Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973-1977 (9 of 12), 1973. Suite of 12 colour coupler prints. Each: 13 x 20 in (33 x 50.8 cm) or 20 x 13 in (50.8 x 30 cm). Estimate: $50,000-70,000. Offered in The Rosa de la Cruz Collection Evening Sale on 14 May 2024 at Christie’s in New York // René Magritte (1898-1967), Les eaux profondes, 1941 (detail). Oil on canvas. 25¾ x 19⅞ in (65.3 x 50.3 cm). Estimate: $4,000,000-7,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 16 May 2024 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2024 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York