Going Once No. 396 | Paul G. Allen's science and tech collection

A royal bridesmaid’s dress, Early English globes, Queer art, Ukrainian modernism, and more [Christie's]( [Christie's]( [Going Once] [Going Once] 29 June 2024 This week’s stories Discover Paul G. Allen’s science and tech collection [ ]( Offered across three sales, the Microsoft co-founder’s collection spans the nuclear age to the dawn of computing via the space race [Read more]( [ ]( How this ‘rare example of royal fashion history’ links a famous Westminster Abbey wedding to the supermodel Kate Moss [Read more]( [ ]( Wonderful worlds: why these 17th-century English globes — the oldest still in private hands — map California as an island [Read more]( [ ]( ‘I wanted to have lots of female artists, trans artists, artists of colour’: Gemma Rolls-Bentley on putting together Queer Art [Read more]( [ ]( The exhibition of modernist Ukrainian art on tour in Europe: ‘We had to get the pieces out, or potentially lose them for ever’ [Read more]( [More Stories]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Editor’s picks [ ]( The cartoonish, colourful, naive-style paintings of Albert Willem often present scenes that are both dramatic and absurd. His 2020 work [Peter Decided Not To Buy The 51,000,000.99 Dollar Car]( depicts a man outside a car showroom, handing back the keys to a sporty-looking vehicle he has apparently just caused to explode [View Lot]( Estimate: £10,000-15,000 until 1 July , Online [ ]( In this [pietra dura plaque]( from the 1670s, black and coloured marble, agate, jasper and amethyst are used to create a still life of fruit and flowers in an alabaster urn. It appears to have been made at the Gobelins workshop in Paris, set up in 1662 to produce furniture and decorative arts for the sumptuous palaces of King Louis XIV [View Lot]( Estimate: £30,000-50,000 2 July , London [ ]( Jean-Léon Gérôme’s evocative oil sketch [General Bonaparte at Cairo]( recalls Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign of 1798-99. Resembling a finished work by Gérôme now at Hearst Castle in California, it was painted in the mid-1860s, when nostalgia for the late emperor was on the rise as the centenary of his birth (1869) drew near [View Lot]( Estimate: £20,000-30,000 3 July , London [ ]( John Gould was a taxidermist and curator of birds at the museum of the Zoological Society of London when he co-wrote [A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains]( published in 1831-32. One of the society’s founders, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, provided the book’s scientific descriptions, and the illustrations were by Gould’s wife, Elizabeth [View Lot]( Estimate: £20,000-30,000 10 July , London [Browse Auctions]( --------------------------------------------------------------- What’s on Now on view | London [Classic Week: connect with art from antiquity to the 20th century, until 9 July ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Closing soon | Online auction [Fine and Rare Wines & Spirits: featuring an Exceptional Private Cellar Part III — Moutai x Whisky, 3 July ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Buy tickets | New York [Christie’s Art + Tech Summit: speakers Steve Wozniak, Beeple, Whitney McGuire and more, 17 & 18 July ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Spotlight on [ ]( • [WOW!house]( London’s annual showcase for leading contemporary design, featuring the likes of Veere Grenney and Colefax and Fowler • [How to collect Greek and Roman marble sculpture]( featuring works offered in our Antiquities sale in London on 2 July • [Paul McCartney]( images captured by the Beatle chronicle the band’s first US tour and rise to superstardom in Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm [ ]( Anytime, Anywhere [Private Sales: Our best kept secret]( ART AND LUXURY, READY TO TAKE HOME [Buy Now]( [ ]( Online Auction [Picasso Ceramics]( London, until 1 July [Browse Sale]( [All Stories]( [Auctions]( [Private Sales]( [Christie’s 3.0]( [Christie's]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us [INSTAGRAM]( | [FACEBOOK]( | [YOUTUBE]( | [WECHAT]( [© CHRISTIE’S 2024]( [Web version]( | [Privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between. Photo: Quarto/Frances Lincoln. Right: Gemma Rolls-Bentley. Photograph by Christa Holka // Oleksandr Bohomazov (1880-1930), Sharpening the Saws, 1927 (detail). Oil on canvas. 138 x 155 cm. National Art Museum of Ukraine. In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, until 13 October 2024 // Jamb London Primary Bedroom by Charlotte Freemantle and Will Fisher. Photo: James McDonald. WOW!house runs until 4 July 2024 at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, London