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...The famous example printed with that Boucher painting has done the rounds....
...The 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin painted plenty of peaches, melons and pears....
...Twenty-first-century works include a dreamy blur of a child in a long avenue of trees from Jean-François Spricigo’s “Romanza” series (2010) and Ellen Carey’s polaroids “White Monochrome” and “Black Monochrome...
...The announcement that Christie’s is selling master drawings belonging to the Swiss former banker Jean Bonna will have electrified every major collector and curator, for this distinguished holding is well...
...Not as iconoclastic as some of his contemporaries, Renoir was less dismissive of technical fluency, maintaining a fondness for Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard late into life....
...Alongside him, a jowly butcher, “Le Garçon Boucher”, wearing a uniform marbled like flesh and fat, is depicted in slashing, pulling strokes — painting as butchery — against a ground drenched in the bloodied...
...The observation of female anatomy was also familiar territory to Boucher....
...Jean-Luc Baroni flourishes Pierre Bonnard’s fascinating early experiment in Japonism, a striking watercolour heightened with gouache (€425,000)....
...For special editions, Favennec seeks out Boucher’s work....
...Duplessis, the painter François Boucher and sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet....
...arrangement but it was the cast’s characterisations, individual and collective, that gave the performance its distinctive hue, with Brindley Sherratt’s resonant Bob Boles, Mark Stone’s suave Ned Keen and Jean...
...His art collection spans 400 years – with works by El Greco, Titian (or at least his studio), Rubens, Boucher, Gainsborough, Canaletto, Guardi and numerous less familiar names....
...Through dealer Joseph Duveen, Frick acquired much of Morgan’s collection – including paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard that would form the basis of the room that bears his name on the ground floor....
...and Jean Pillement, which owed as much to literature and fantasy as to reality....
...But today, says Jean-Pierre Chevènement, a founder of the Socialist party, “there are no more Gaullists on either the right or the left”....
...Chabrol’s great decade was the 1960s (La Femme Infidèle , 1968, Le Boucher, 1970) but he can still craft tales with a deadly sting (L’Ivresse de Pouvoir, 2006)....
...This is the atmosphere elaborated by Jean Renoir in his film La Règle du Jeu, a 20th-century fête galante, replete with eroticism, humour and heartbreak....
...CAFI : Jean-Luc Parer will take full responsibility of CAFI. RESS : François Boucher will take responsibility of the Global Resources Group....
...As Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg’s premier, has noted: “We all know what we need to do but we don’t know how to win elections after we have done it.”...
...Probably the finest of the French paintings is the superb Boucher hanging in our bedroom....
...He also bought unfashionable Fragonards and Bouchers, frothy fantasies despised by the new bourgeoisie as redolent of the aristocracy that had recently met its fate at the guillotine, and, in 1838, one of...
...‘Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702- 1789): Swiss Master’ is at the Frick until September 17. Tel +1 212 288 0700...
...Brigitte Boucher is wonderful as the speech-impaired lady president....
...Some 19 leading London dealers unveil anything from Boucher’s ravishing red chalk drawing of the head of a young girl at Jean-Luc Baroni to Rossetti’s “Elizabeth Siddall combing her hair” (W/S Art) and Tom...
...There are also major works by friends and colleagues such as Jean Arp, Rudolf Bauer, Vasily Kandinsky, Hans Richter and Kurt Schwitters....
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