Hints and tips:
...I sketch first concepts – for example, for Neighborhood, a furniture line I did with Bernhardt – and I also draw people, so that I have a written and visual record of meetings....
...Alongside the household names (Felix Mendelssohn, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud) are lesser-known individuals: Eliza Davis, a Victorian housewife who held Charles Dickens to account for his anti-Semitic...
...Cafés made a great show of having once been the haunt of Václav Havel, or Sarah Bernhardt....
...From Los Angeles, John Singer Sargent’s “Dr Pozzi”, the handsome, long-fingered gynaecologist whom his lover Sarah Bernhardt called “Docteur Dieu”, swaggers in scarlet dressing grown and embroidered slippers...
...Sure to sell is Katherine Bernhardt’s “Hamburgers French Fries + Cigarettes” (2014, estimated $20,000-$30,000), which had received ten bids through Artsy and was sitting pretty at $28,000 as this column...
...Helped, no doubt, by his friendship with eminent Whig politician Charles James Fox, Nash came to the attention of George, Prince of Wales....
...Almost every one of the peonies is a fully double pink-flowered Sarah Bernhardt, the celebrity among peonies from the Edwardian past....
...Charles Barr teaches at University College Dublin...
...Leigh Lezark, member of the Misshapes and ambassador for Charles Worthington: “With the economy, harder times have lent themselves to harder looks....
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