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...Upcoming lots which seem to tick all the boxes include a summery Paul Signac seascape of the “Calanque des Canoubiers (Pointe de Bamer), Saint-Tropez” (£5.5mn-£7.5mn at Christie’s), a 1966 Barbara Hepworth...
...“We want something, but it’s like that German saying: ‘Wash my fur, but don’t get me wet,’” said Ursula Münch, director of the academy for political education in Tutzing, Bavaria....
...Veteran curator Barbara Haskell tracks a brief career crammed with turnarounds, dead-ends and the occasional masterpiece....
...From Dürer and Rembrandt to Munch, Matisse and Bacon — all wonderfully represented — the self-portrait was expressive....
...There’s a fine line between Grace Kelly elegance and Barbara Bush establishment....
...Yet life effervesces amid the decay as people munch on hot dogs, pause to pet a stray cat and generally buck each other up for the ongoing assault....
...What this devolves into is the tautology that all artists and writers are creative, giving Conrad licence to flit themelessly, non-chronologically, among them, from Raphael to Munch to D.H. Lawrence....
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