Online Magazine No.350

NY 20th and 21st Century sales results, The Robin and Rupert Hambro Collection, Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Donna Summer, Alberto Burri, Robotics in art, and more | [View in browser]( [Christie's]( [BUY]( [SELL]( [STORIES]( [Christie's] [Allen, Newhouse, Fineberg and Press collections see 20th and 21st Century sales reach $922m]( [Eclecticism perfected: Robin and Rupert Hambro’s love for Old Masters and Modern British art]( ‘ [‘The best Hawthorne collection in private hands’: with author’s corrections for The Scarlet Letter]( [Hot stuff: mementoes from the career of Donna Summer, from platinum discs to evening dresses]( [‘He was rude, but very nice’: the novelist, the photographer, and the artist who painted with fire]( [Meet the duo making art with robots: ‘Sunflowers took 49 hours, 3 mins and 3 seconds to paint’]( [More stories]( Editor’s picks [Wu Guanzhong was on course to be an engineer when he met art student Chu Teh-Chun and decided to join him at the Academy of Art in Hangzhou. With Lin Fengmian among his teachers, Wu learned Eastern and Western styles of art; A Corner of a Garden (By the Lake), from 1977, combines both in one finely balanced work]( [Estimate: HK$13,500,000-24,000,000 28 May, Hong Kong]( [The toy-like Hermès handbag known as the Quelle Idole (or Kelly Doll) was introduced in 2000. A digital-age update, this limited-edition Kellydole Picto bag from 2022, which is offered with a mini Kelly Doll charm, has all the playful charisma of its predecessor but in a pixelated, video-game style]( [Estimate: HK$300,000-400,000 25 May, Hong Kong]( [Born in Kentucky and trained in Paris, Charles Courtney Curran first visited the artists’ colony of Cragsmoor, New York, in 1903. He returned there to paint every summer for the next four decades, his preferred subject being female figures in radiantly sunlit outdoor settings, as in his breezy 1917 work High Country]( [Estimate: $30,000-50,000 24 May, New York]( [This Gothic Revival table has quite a pedigree. It was made by Crace & Co., decorators to the British royal family, following the designs of Augustus Pugin, who masterminded the interiors of the Palace of Westminster. Thomas Tutton Knyfton of Uphill Manor, Somerset, commissioned it as a wedding present for his wife Georgina]( [Estimate: £25,000-40,000 25 May, London](   © [Christie’s 2023]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe from Online Magazine]( Donna Summer performs on stage, c. 1975. Photograph by GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty Images // Alberto Burri, Rome, 1964. Photograph by Giuseppe Loy. Archivio Fotografico Giuseppe Loy. Artwork: © Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello — DACS 2023 // Rob and Nick Carter. Photo: James Kelly / Rob and Nick Carter, Sunflowers, Robot Paintings, 2021 (after Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, 1888). Acrylic on wooden board, framed. Painting time: 49:03:03; stroke count: 9,153. © Rob and Nick Carter