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...Top-billing is John Singer Sargent’s 1891 “Egyptian Woman (Coin Necklace)”, $1.2mn-$1.8mn, while the collection also includes Frank W Benson’s glamorous portrait of one of his sisters, “Firelight” (1893)...
...[Henry] Moore and [Barbara] Hepworth were not great modernists”, in fact “superficial” copyists of the latest fashions from France....
...and British literature in the United Arab Emirates Andrew Brown, executive vice-president, Shell Fionna Gibb, deputy head of mission, Sana’a, Yemen Christopher O’Connor, ambassador, Tunisia Jeremy Sargent...
...Born in 1890, as a young woman she was sketched by John Singer Sargent. Her first, brief, marriage to Jean, Prince de Broglie, propelled her into the society pages....
...After that you realise the virtuosity, but he doesn’t screech it like [John Singer] Sargent does. The most ordinary subjects are dealt with only by the very greatest artists.”...
...The real joy here is a seeing great 20th–century works of art – including paintings by Ben Nicholson and Joan Miró and sculpture by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth...
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