Online Magazine No.348

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s history painting, Coronation portraits, Royal Drawing School exhibition, Lee Miller by Picasso, Magnificent Jewels, Robin F. Williams’s Ice Queen, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Jean-Michel Basquiat’s El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile): an anatomy of a monumental work of art]( [Jewels in the crown: 600 years of British royal portraits with the magnificent Coronation regalia]( ‘ [Happy and glorious: the Royal Drawing School celebrates its founding patron’s Coronation]( [A Picasso portrait of Lee Miller: one of seven made in 1937, but the only one he kept for himself]( [‘The workmanship is incredible’: jewels worn by royals, aristocrats and opera’s most famous dame]( [Breaking the ice: why this canvas by Robin F. Williams is Lot 1 in our 21st Century Evening Sale]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Edward Hopper’s paintings of the Maine coast are the flipside to his melancholic cityscapes. The watercolour Coast Guard Cove captures a serene scene on the often stormy shores of Cape Elizabeth, where the artist and his wife Jo spent the summer of 1929. Writing in Hopper’s record book, Jo called this picture ‘a beauty’]( [Estimate: $600,000-800,000 11 May, New York]( [A golden crown studded with diamonds is a suitably majestic adornment to this elegant antique brooch, dating from around 1880. Further old-cut diamonds, set in silver, are suspended below the crown, and eight of them form a gleaming guard of honour around a lustrous rectangular emerald]( [Estimate: CHF150,000-200,000 17 May, Geneva]( [Istanbul-born artist Seda Hepsev painted The Table in 2011, a period when she was exploring ideas of self-presentation by depicting figures in awkward, comical poses with their faces hidden. Here, two opposing female figures appear to be bent forward under a tablecloth, with only their legs visible]( [Estimate: $2,000-3,000 until 16 May, Online]( [This silvered-bronze box lined with corkwood, from around 1940, is a typically playful work by the French designer Line Vautrin. Entitled ‘Happy Among the Crowd’, it is decorated on the lid with a stylised throng of people, all looking serious, blank or miserable, except for one round, smiling face in the middle]( [Estimate: €6,000-8,000 26 May, Paris](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile), 1983. Acrylic and oilstick mounted with wooden supports, in three parts. Overall: 68 x 141 in (172.7 x 358 cm). © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Estimate on request. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 15 May 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Elizabeth I (1533-1603), circa 1600, by an unknown English artist (detail). National Portrait Gallery, London. Photo: © National Portrait Gallery, London // Christopher Green (b. 1979; RDS 2008 alumnus), Westminster Abbey, Anointing the King, 2023. Conte crayon and ink on paper. 135 x 95 cm / Christabel MacGreevy (b. 1991; RDS alumna 2017), The Lion & The Unicorn, May 2023. Charcoal, pastel and gouache with collage on paper. 62 x 73 cm. Both on view at Christie’s in London until 25 May 2023 // Picasso and Lee Miller in his studio, Liberation of Paris, 7 rue des Grands-Augustins, Paris, 1944 (detail). Photograph by Lee Miller. Artwork: © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2023. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk // Robin F. Williams (b. 1984), Ice Queen, 2019 (detail). Oil and acrylic on canvas. 72 x 50 in (182.3 x 172 cm). © Robin F. Williams. Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 15 May 2023 at Christie’s in New York