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...There were some unlikely heroes at Christie’s largely underwhelming Modern British and Irish art auction in London on Tuesday evening....
...Take home a Ben Nicholson print and position it just as the couple did: low on your living-room wall. kettlesyard.co.uk Zehra Munir Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town In keeping with the Cape Town museum’s focus on...
...is his cryptic parting question, and the title of Hugh Laurie’s thoroughly amiable three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel....
...In 2017, Rybolovlev sold the work at Christie’s for $450.3m (with fees), still by far the highest public price paid for a work of art....
...In one Agatha Christie story, Hercule Poirot lunches on steak and kidney pudding at the pub....
...Turn down King Street and past Christie’s to reach St James’s Square, the most intimately elegant square in London, developed in the 17th century as homes for courtiers close to St James’s Palace....
...I use Artprice to check on the market, ARTnews for updates and, of course, Christie’s and Sotheby’s....
...The Isokon, neglected by the end of the 1990s but restored and reopened in 2005, became synonymous with artistic life in Hampstead, boasting illustrious tenants — from Gropius to Agatha Christie — and an...
...Sotheby’s sale also features works by the modern British favourites Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, alongside major works by Euan Uglow, Frank Auerbach and Patrick Heron....
...Last November, a stack of 10 brass and green Plexiglas boxes (executed in 1993) came up for auction at Christie’s New York....
...Agatha Christie lived there, as did Arnold Deutsch, later exposed as the spy who recruited Kim Philby. Artists Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson regularly visited the bar....
...It’s a tale of movie giants, from stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway to writer Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski....
...The evening and day auctions also offer paintings by David Hockney, Ben Nicholson and Pauline Boty....
...As his troubles deepen, Damon spends the film’s second half with a busted nose, plastered over like Jack Nicholson’s in Chinatown....
...Frances Christie, Sotheby’s head of modern British art, said: “He was seeking out artists who were pushing boundaries.”...
...Low estimates start at £300 for a Henry Moore lithograph, and go up to £50,000-£70,000 for works by Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron....
...I looked at them more closely, and what they appeared actually to be were gorgeous little minimalist sculptures by Ben Nicholson or Barbara Hepworth — little oval bronzes with a few geometric nicks taken...
...Educating sellers to face up to market realities has been tough, says Will Christie at yacht brokers YCO....
...Modern British Art Christie’s London, July 10 Paintings and sculptures by LS Lowry, Ben Nicholson, Lynn Chadwick and Barbara Hepworth are the notable works going under the hammer in this auction of a mere...
...But what Nicholson found in Cornwall, Végh felt too. “The nature is so beautiful here, it’s unspoilt nature,” he said....
...Can you imagine Jack Nicholson as Napoleon Bonaparte?” (Kubrick considered the American actor for the part, though the film was never cast.)...
...The former can be found at glitzy evening auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s while the latter cluster together more sedately at fairs....
...Prices at the Nicholson sale start at £25 for a water colour and go up to £15,000 for portraits of the Kennedys....
...The most recent was an aerial view of Lord Carrington’s house which Christie’s employees presented to him when he retired as chairman. They’re painted in gouache and watercolour....
...In 1958, too, Boris Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago was enjoying some of the 26 weeks it would spend at the top of the New York Times bestseller list; the film version of 1965 would propel its star Julie Christie...
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