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...I bought it at Christie’s, having known the past two owners, Canadian collector David Graham and taste arbiter Christopher Gibbs, for 30 years....
...The Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev is pitted against the Swiss free port “king” Yves Bouvier over the $2bn collection of 38 art works that Bouvier built up for him....
...Artists such as Christopher Wool, Richard Prince, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat all underperformed, she says....
...Paul Gauguin, edited by Raphaël Bouvier and Martin Schwander, Hatje Cantz, RRP€68 The most beautiful and scholarly exhibition catalogue of the year: a lavish documentation (in English) of the Fondation...
...’s early years brought him in contact with the likes of Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt; he walked his blind grandfather on to the floor of the US Senate, and had the same stepfather as Jacqueline Bouvier...
...Astonishingly clever and idiosyncratic, as ever Thomson pulls no punches: “the only honourable reality is that of pretending . . . ” Antonia Quirke Art Paul Gauguin, edited by Raphaël Bouvier and Martin...
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