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...Gilot, who died last year aged 101, gave the painting to Huffington as a gift in 1986....
...“People do want to see things in this market,” says Alexander Bell, co-chair of Sotheby’s Old Masters paintings business....
...Their continental cousins are not. The real answer to the question “who killed Cock Robin?” is: a French bloke with a shotgun. With a little patience, you can tame a robin....
...The oval-shaped painting depicting cows and sheep resting in a pasture now hangs near his desk....
...Decorating one’s digits is not only soothing but provides an attainable nano-burst of creativity in lockdown....
...“How sustainable this is will depend on how quickly the economy reopens given manufacturing surveys are painting a grim picture right now,” the bank added....
...While most of them favour drab concrete over the spirit of the old stone-walled caravanserai, you won’t be short of a clean bed and continental breakfast....
...“[Andy] Warhol was making 90 paintings a day — he was a like a factory — and some of the paintings were done by his friends....
...It depicts him as an Indian godlike figure, wearing a turban and necklaces decorating his naked body, alongside an inscription presenting the painting as a gift to the Spaniard....
...But while Mr Kostin’s 14-year tenure at the helm of VTB has been synonymous with Russia Inc’s attempts to flex its financial muscle — its assets have risen from $4bn to $191bn — VTB’s critics say the bank...
...They took home what antiquities they could find, as well as “Old Master” paintings and drawings, and mementoes in the form of portraits and detailed view paintings....
...The practice of painting the bride’s face white and decorating it with sequins and coloured paint called gelena in Bulgarian, is a tradition unique to Ribnovo, dating back centuries....
...Each of the four big Paris department stores established a specialised decorating department....
...Updates on classic patterns with brighter colour palettes now offer bolder decorating options....
...Its paintings on the ceiling of the various destinations of the old Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean railway network are just as much an appetiser to any traveller as the hot Lyon sausage or the salade Niçoise....
...Artists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning moved art away from easel-sized painting to a grand format, and needed the large spaces, the ceiling height and the light to not only create their works...
...“Many of these companies were cutting the grass or painting and decorating – now they’re doing much more complicated things,” says Tim Steer, fund manager at Artemis. “That means more risk taking.”...
...For others it begins as little more than a means of decorating the office walls....
...“After seven weeks, I left for continental Europe and visited six more countries. In Paris, I saw the most beautiful Starbucks I’ve been to....
...The markets in Petit Thoars, Miraflores, offer goods from all over the country – alpaca scarves and ponchos, textiles, ceramics and paintings....
...He has made slight tweaks to packaging, decorating paper bags with an old-style William Morrison handwritten signature, to play on Morrison’s homely feel....
...In 2001, UK-based Nicholas Lacey & Partners completed a scheme reusing these large steel boxes (appropriately located in London’s Docklands neighbourhood), painting them in bright reds, oranges and yellows...
...They offer a continental touch alongside the mainstays of the London antiques trade, dominant dealers such as Richard Green, Peter Nahum, and McConnall Mason in paintings and Hotspur (a participant since...
...Meanwhile, gilts in the UK continued to benefit from the continental sell-off and they outperformed Bunds....
...“I thought it was the cheapest way of decorating my office,” Löbbe proudly declared....
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