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...The other is by Abraham Janssen, a prominent Flemish artist who adopted Caravaggio’s innovative use of light.” Prices are undisclosed....
...A swag painting with roses, ivy and butterflies by Daniel Seghers sold at Christie’s this summer for £40,000....
...His 16cm by 21cm “Abraham and the Angels” (1646) is estimated between $20m and $30m and has a guaranteed price offered by the auction house (generally set just below the low estimate)....
...The withdrawal of Rembrandt’s “Abraham and the Angels” (1646), estimated at $20m-$30m, provided a nervous backdrop to Sotheby’s January 28 Old Masters auction....
...“Writing or film-making is always some sort of risk-taking unless you are Agatha Christie,” he says, acknowledging that his second feature Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) is “so radical, so destructive,...
...Yet there’s not much here that wouldn’t look familiar to Agatha Christie, let alone the makers of Clue (1985), and that includes the convoluted plotting and hammy characterisations....
...Established in 1932 by Abraham Schweitzer, it is now in the hands of his son Paul and grandson Jay, described by fans as “the last OGs” of the typewriter world....
...“It was not a Lincoln-Douglas debate, that is for sure,” Mr Romney added, referring to a series of 19th-century debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Others were more direct....
...There’s an element of Kubrick-meets-Christie here as we learn how the crew of convicts became whittled down to one man (Robert Pattinson) and his infant daughter....
...One thing to start: Brooks Brothers, the centuries-old purveyor of American business wear whose suits were sported by presidents including Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy, is to file for bankruptcy protection...
...of hoodlums who resemble Danny Green’s meathead and Peter Sellers’ bequiffed spiv from The Ladykillers (Mackendrick’s original, not the best-forgotten Coen remake), and it similarly ends with an Agatha Christie-worthy...
...Givenchy had been introduced to Giacometti’s work in the 1960s by Swiss silk specialist Gustav Zumsteg, whose designs made Abraham Ltd one of the most famous fabric suppliers to the haute-couture business...
...But the choice of Mr Pence, a former radio talk show host who spent ten years in Congress, also marks one of the rare cases since 1864, when Abraham Lincoln ran for re-election with Andrew Johnson, that...
...Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas famously held three-hour debates on the eve of the US civil war....
...The myth of having been raised in a log cabin was close to reality for Abraham Lincoln, America’s greatest president. He, too, was the last of his family line....
...The classic case is Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor who is now laying the groundwork for a possible run for the Republican nomination for president in 2016....
...Her work at both venues has had a ripple effect — at the Walker Art Center, she curated an exhibition dedicated to the leading Mexican sculptor Abraham Cruzvillegas which ended its extensive tour last month...
...From a historical perspective, however, the most important offering took the form of an early 19th-century pocket chronometer made by Abraham-Louis Breguet....
...The gold, extra flat, pair-cased half quarter repeater features equation of time, power reserve indication, moon phase and calendar and was bought directly from Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1831 by the Marquess...
...(In 2002 Christie’s sold for just over £2m a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D....
...A good chunk of it was accounted for by the sale of an exquisite pocket watch from the workshops of the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet....
...The most capable Republicans, Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, didn’t seek the nomination; those who did were a ludicrous sequence of imposters, apart from the nominee....
...Christie’s estimates it will now realise up to SFr2.4m its 350-lot sale....
...This pioneering show was put together by Edge of Arabia, an independent arts initiative funded by the Jameel family and sponsored by Christie’s, the auction house....
...Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey does a mean Bruce Springsteen imitation, though “The Boss” would never endorse him....
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