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...Artemis, whose other holdings include a controlling stake in luxury group Kering and auction house Christie’s, is planning to invest $2.8bn of its own money and have CAA borrow $425mn in loans, according...
...into entertainment is a new direction for Pinault and Artémis, having spent most of the past decade building a $40bn portfolio focused on luxury through its stakes in Gucci-owner Kering and auction house Christie...
...Then Christie has the ability to harness it and make it happen.”...
...The Pinault family, which owns large stakes in luxury-oriented businesses like Gucci owner Kering and the Christie’s auction house, will purchase TPG’s 53 per cent stake at a valuation above $7bn, sources...
...The dazzling parties that were once the norm have been replaced with more intimate affairs, including gatherings at Christie’s and Verdura to launch her book....
...He bought his first coin watch, a Movado (c 1950) with a silver St Christopher’s medallion cover, last summer. Medals have been commonly used instead of coins....
...The identities of unsigned works of art are easily lost, as the sales history of a Christie’s rediscovery this January also bears witness....
...Christie’s has set ambitions high for Andy Warhol’s signature square silkscreen, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964)....
...His fraudulent misrepresentations were connected to works by artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher Wool and Rudolf Stingel....
...Experts say it likely travelled across the Atlantic with a Spanish treasure fleet before passing down an English family until 1973, when it sold at Christie’s for £1,785....
...Christopher Vadot, a French-British former journalist who set up a “concierge” company, Holiday Services, in 2003, likens the island’s extreme seasonality to a theatre....
...Lafitte (sic) 1787 Pauillac at Christie’s, London, for the then-record sum of £105,000....
...Online auction, 19-27 January; bonhams.com Christie’s launches a new wine sale in Los Angeles For its first online sale based in Los Angeles – Fine & Rare Wines – Christie’s has tapped the cellars of two...
...Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari will take part in a discussion with Fed governor Christopher Waller in Minnesota....
...Philbrick’s fraud took in paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher Wool and Rudolf Stingel, its statement says....
...In one Agatha Christie story, Hercule Poirot lunches on steak and kidney pudding at the pub....
...Other artists include Carol Bove, Wolfgang Tillmans and photographer Christopher Williams, who helped design the platform....
...I also wonder why he did not keep Leonardo’s silverpoint “Head of a Bear” (c1590), which he sold at Christie’s in London in July 2021 for £8.9m....
...In the past, we’ve had the elegantly stylised prose of Raymond Chandler and the get-it-done-expediently narratives of Agatha Christie, both of which have heirs today....
...At 22 Steven Spurrier had just started his first job in the wine trade, washing corks and bottling casks of Château Cheval Blanc 1962 in the cellars of Christopher’s, the London wine merchant, and received...
...For the book: imagine Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin (Cabaret to be) with Sally Bowles replaced by Holly Golightly, a Boho, scattily tempestuous hooker who is in part, surely, a self-portrait...
...The fresh-faced sitter is unknown though likely a “high-status Florentine”, possibly a member of the Medici family (Botticelli’s prestigious patrons), says Christopher Apostle, head of Sotheby’s Old Master...
...Philbrick’s alleged fraudulent scheme took in works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher Wool and Rudolf Stingel, as detailed in the complaint that was unsealed last week....
...Christie’s 100 opened for bids on Tuesday and runs until February 5. In 2012 the New York drawings expert Christopher Bishop bought at auction a painting of Aurora, the goddess of dawn....
...Daniel Craig lays it on thickest as a Southern sleuth who comes to probe the killing of prickly paterfamilias (Christopher Plummer) and grill his money-hungry offspring....
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