Online Magazine No.324

The Paul G. Allen Collection, Richard Mille watches, The Khartoum School, Abstract Expressionism, Ann & Gordon Getty, Macabre art, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [‘You feel you’re taken back to previous eras’: visions of Venice in the Paul G. Allen Collection]( [Ann & Gordon Getty Collection surpasses $150m: four live and six online sales 100 per cent sold]( ‘ [The Khartoum School — how a new expression of Sudan’s rich heritage emerged in the 1950s]( [‘Performance pushed to the very extreme’ — why tennis stars and racing drivers love Richard Mille]( [‘I bend the paint’: how Abstract Expressionism found its groove in postwar New York’s jazz scene]( [‘Where there’s something that’s unpalatable, it’s often exciting’ — the lure of the macabre in art]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Mahmoud Saïd was the son of Egypt’s prime minister, and for much of his career he was a judge as well as a painter. This sun-drenched view of the bay at Marsa Matrouh dates from 1948, around the time he gave up the law and devoted himself to art. It was a gift to his niece, Queen Farida of Egypt]( [Estimate: £70,000-100,000 2 November, London]( [This Saul Steinberg drawing, Twenty Americans (Twenty Professions), appeared on the cover of The New Yorker on 20 October 1975. The Romanian-born artist saw the value of his outsider status in America. ‘Being an immigrant made one into a child,’ he said. ‘A child who talked funny and noticed things natives never did’]( [Estimate: $18,000-25,000 10 November, New York]( [Philippe Starck’s Il ou Elle is one of 49 mirrors to be offered in a charity sale at Christie’s in Paris on 9 November. Created and donated by artists, designers, jewellers and decorators, they will be sold to benefit Paris Tout P’tits, which helps families with babies at risk of malnutrition]( [Estimate on request 9 November, Paris]( [Industrial settings, from quarries to refineries, take on a sublime beauty in the work of the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. In this 1983 image, printed in 2012, one of the world’s deepest open-pit mines, the Kennecott Copper Mine in Utah, has the grandeur of a classical amphitheatre]( [Estimate: €12,000-18,000 until 8 November, Online](   © [Christie’s 2022]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Willem de Kooning, Untitled III, 1978. Oil on canvas. 70 x 80 in (177.8 x 203.2 cm). Estimate on request. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 17 November 2022 at Christie’s in New York // Hussein Shariffe photographed in London, 1960. Photo: Ida Kar. © National Portrait Gallery, London