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...L’Oréal last year bought Australian high-end cosmetics group Aesop from its Brazilian owner in a transaction with an enterprise value of $2.5bn while Gucci-owner Kering paid €3.5bn to acquire the fragrance...
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...Modern Art’s 2,000 sq ft, second-floor space will be in a Haussmann-designed building on Place de l’Alma in the city’s central eighth arrondissement....
...Opera now brings higher-value and more recognised artists to a more open-minded market and has recently appointed Isabelle de la Bruyère, a Christie’s long-timer, as its chief executive based in London....
...Conductor and founder William Christie is generous to his instrumentalists, so organ, flute, horn and cello all get their moment in the spotlight....
...Christie’s had the healthiest auction of the season so far on November 9, when 61 pieces of mostly 20th-century art sold for a within-estimate $543.5mn ($640.8mn with fees)....
...He has produced films including Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson and The Baytown Outlaws starring Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria....
...The six ensuite cabins, staggered over two levels, evidence this beautifully, from custom Egyptian kilim carpets to the master suite’s trompe l’oeil landscape – made by Greek artist Athan Mytilinaios using...
...Christie’s Highlights from the oeuvre of Studio Ymer&Malta will be exhibited at the auctioneers on Avenue Matignon....
...Hood for its foldaway bonnet-style hats (£49, l-hood.com)....
...Ostin’s works were topped by René Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951), which sold for $36.5mn ($42.3mn with fees, est $35mn-$55mn) while a second painting by Magritte in his collection, from 1949,...
...The event will now be in the 18th-century L’hôtel de Maisons, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...Designed by a local architect, the property’s single-storey L-shape borders a south-facing garden....
...Christie’s will offer works by Paul Gauguin and Joan Mitchell as part of a $50mn collection consigned by Roger Sant, founder of the US energy company AES Corporation....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...For me it was an arson attack at Gare de l’Est. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed about 50 cables, disrupting services....
...Christie’s has secured Yves Klein’s three-metre-wide “Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124)” (1960), which it will offer for about £24mn on June 28....
...Agatha Christie gave her famous detective one. Salvador Dalí once claimed his was “the most serious part” of his personality....
...People no longer dressed for dinner on the night trains, and soon after the war Agatha Christie was bitten by bedbugs on the Simplon Orient Express....
...When Christie’s offered the 3m-high bird-esque fountain L’Oiseau Amoureux in its 2020 selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture, it “sold in excess of $600,000 from its former home on the edge of Lake Geneva...
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...Last year, Christie’s sold a stainless steel Patek Philippe service watch, dated c1953, for $47,500....
...Last year, a two-metre trompe l’oeil of a glossy black and soft green puffa jacket made in 2018, called “Over Armour”, sold at Christie’s in New York for $479,000, and her record was set at Sotheby’s with...
...It was for her that he designed a Little Black Dress and the fragrance L’Interdit....
...Also in the lot is a version of Magritte’s masterpiece L’Empire des Lumières, which the Belgian artist gifted to his muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet....
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