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...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...
...He put the items up for auction at Christie’s months later in 1992, though he’d decided to keep back the handwritten diaries....
...L’hôtel de Maisons, however, wasn’t the first choice....
...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....
...He has produced films including Unthinkable starring Samuel L Jackson and The Baytown Outlaws starring Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria....
...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)....
...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....
...Bonus points for the perfect French omelette at its restaurant, Brasserie l’Émil. An 11/10 recommend....
...“Most have been over allegations of antisemitism or support of terrorism, but sometimes it’s less clear,” the ELSC’s Alice Garcia, said, adding that some events were cancelled because the works were deemed...
...“Garcia is not only a designer but a collector and connoisseur,” says Mario Tavella, president of Sotheby’s France....
...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,...
...A trip to the Musée de l’Orangerie? Ice cream by the Seine? Mais oui! Yet the French capital also backdrops sorrow....
...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....
...Now the waterfront — which forms part of Liverpool Waters, Peel L&P’s £5bn, 30-year project to transform the city’s northern docks — is taking on a new life itself....
...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....
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