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...Painting brigands and nobility alike, Pirosmani turned social observation into parable, or reclining sex workers into saints in the “Ortachala Belle” diptych....
...Christie’s Highlights from the oeuvre of Studio Ymer&Malta will be exhibited at the auctioneers on Avenue Matignon....
...The identities of unsigned works of art are easily lost, as the sales history of a Christie’s rediscovery this January also bears witness....
...Why While the exterior of the Belle Époque-era building has been preserved, the interiors have been updated to include contemporary bathrooms, custom-built kitchens, LED lighting, lifts and security systems...
...At Richard Green gallery, sales included a view from Belle Vue House on the nearby Cheyne Walk, painted by the Scottish artist and Pre-Raphaelite muse Alice Boyd circa 1873-75 (priced at £550,000)....
...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....
...Why The property’s dual aspect allows it to have sea views from every room, taking in Quiberon Bay to the east and Belle Île to the south-west....
...Looking for opinions on the city’s future as a high-end destination, I called Inmaculada Ranera, a director at hospitality-sector estate agents Christie & Co, who believes Madrid’s star has dramatically...
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...La Baule’s emblematic properties are its Belle Époque villas. A seven-bedroom, 300 sq m villa in the Quartier des Oiseaux costs €2.19m with Bretagne Sud Sotheby’s International Realty....
...When I returned home, I was struck by the news that Christie’s was auctioning off a piece of the moon found in the desert further west....
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor Albert Cohen, Belle du Seigneur....
...“Belle de Jour owes a lot to Yves Saint Laurent,” she says modestly....
...Meanwhile, prices for Art Deco and Belle Époque (1890 to 1915) jewellery rose by as much as 72 per cent between 2007 and 2018....
...Susan Graham is in delectable form as Regina, who wraps Southern-belle charm around her determination to get what she wants....
...The Abu Dhabi branch has a Leonardo, “La belle ferronnière”, on loan from the Louvre in Paris but lacks its own....
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...However, the same sale also has an interesting group of Léon Bakst costume designs for “La Belle au Bois Dormant”, the Petipa ballet presented in St Petersburg in 1890....
...Winkworth is selling an eight-bedroom, lakeside, belle époque villa in Cologny for SFr25m....
...A five-bedroom Belle Époque-style villa is on sale in Morumbi for R$17.5m ($4.95m) through AxPe, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, while a four-bedroom villa with open-plan living areas...
...“One client of mine with a belle-époque villa in the middle of Cannes makes about €1m a year from rentals during the 35 or so events the city hosts each year,” says Mark Harvey at Knight Frank, who is marketing...
...Older still, the Belle Tout lighthouse in Beachy Head, East Sussex, has been a popular landmark since becoming operational in 1834....
...Asian Art Week September 17-20 Christie’s, 45 Rockefeller Plaza, New York christies.com Over four days Christie’s will auction a diverse range of Asian art and artefacts, including rare ceramics and cloisonné...
...Why: For the past 26 years the property has been owned by the French actor Catherine Deneuve, star of Belle de Jour (1967) and Dancer in the Dark (2000)....
...The ultimate is, however, to have a roaring fire in front of a bath, or to sleep with another in a bedroom with a fire’s shimmering shadows as if one was James Bond with his belle de jour!...
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