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...The sweetbreads are mixed in a delicious gravy with salty bacon, baby broad beans and mint....
...Leading the pack of all contemporary artists by value last year was Yayoi Kusama who, with $80.9mn of sales, took the top spot from David Hockney, ranked second at $50.3mn....
...David Hockney’s limpid stretch of radiant blue broken by tangled lines, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)”, scintillates across the central gallery in Capturing the Moment, the new exhibition...
...If someone on stage is grilling bacon, there can be no doubt that you’re in the same room with them....
...The influence of French Rococo during George II’s reign is apparent in Hogarth’s portrait of the theatre producer David Garrick and his wife Eva-Maria Veigel, with her egg yolk-coloured gown, frilly lace...
...I think this is why — although there have been some French biographies (none have been translated) — they do not delve into the inner life....
...Auerbach, now 91, was an associate of Francis Bacon and is a contemporary of Lucian Freud and David Hockney....
...I would work out with the trainer who helped Boris Johnson bounce back from Covid, and eat a seven-course £195 feast inspired by Sir Francis Bacon and cooked by a celebrity chef from Argentina....
...In a country that — as Sir David Attenborough has reminded us in his recent television series Wild Isles — has the most calamitously depleted natural environment in Europe, the King has been, decade after...
...Mexican flamenco-rockers Rodrigo y Gabriela, French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and French synth-pop act Christine and the Queens lend a global sound....
...Try the French toast – doorstop bread and thick bacon, drizzled in maple syrup – or a glistening pain aux raisins, washed down with steaming hot Hasbean coffee....
...Hockney or cutlery by David Mellor....
...Sotheby’s scored the highest price of the season — £23mn (£24.3mn with fees) for Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes” (1963, third-party guarantee), though this was below its...
...king, whose scenes are delivered in French with English surtitles....
...My personal style signifier is a pair of pants by Vetra, a French workwear brand that uses a beautiful bleu de travail dye....
...But he also discovered he could eat his fill of “the Southern cuisine we all love, the bacon and greens of our native Alabama”....
...A fine first edition of Elizabeth David’s A Book of Mediterranean Food could sell for $1,500 to $2,000....
...The Beaumont, 8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens, London W1K 6TF St John, Spitalfields What The French House in Soho was for Francis Bacon, Augustus John and Lucian Freud in the mid-20th century,...
...Another generational story is told in Prayer for the French Republic, a new play from award-winning Joshua Harmon presented by Manhattan Theater Club: in this, a French Jewish family’s history examines themes...
...Our chef is Neil Borthwick of The French House who has the talent, sensitivity and modesty to handle simple ingredients with brilliance and due honour....
...Other highlights from the first quarter include Love Marriage (Virago, February), a new novel from Monica Ali, and Anne Tyler’s French Braid (Chatto & Windus, March)....
...Ably translated by David Watson as Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?, Coudray’s 2017 exposé tells the story of the common additives used to cure — and, crucially, to colour — processed meats....
...The RA also hosts David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020, which was shown in Paris last year....
...Her father, David Lionel Salomons, was an avid buyer of watches by the illustrious Swiss-French maker Abraham-Louis Breguet, including the renowned “Marie Antoinette” watch, made for the French queen....
...Pierre Yovanovitch, Rose Uniacke and David Netto are all regular customers....
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