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...But he regularly returned to his birthplace and his beloved motifs: the dry, rugged landscape, the fishing village of l’Estaque and the Mont Sainte-Victoire....
...Omega by Andrew Grima limited-edition c1970s gold and faceted-quartz-crystal Teak wristwatch, from the Jeux d’Or collection, POA, somlo.com Model, Robert Perry Smith at Chapter....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...April 4 to 7; further information and tickets here ‘Film Cycle: Deborah Stratman’, Jeu de Paume American artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman tackles notions of power and control, investigating the dynamics...
...An avuncular, grey-bearded presence behind a pair of decks, Bovell introduced Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo, then a protégée, L Dot, an attitudinal teenage rapper....
...jumper, €110 Private White VC Ventile cotton Harrington 3.0 jacket, £595 Michael Kors metal-frame Pierce sunglasses, £170 Luca Faloni leather bag, £725 Crockett & Jones suede Chelsea 5 boots, £470 L’...
...Inspired by the 18th-century bronze and ceramic candelabras flanking the hall’s entrance, the works have tentacle-like forms in green, pink and yellow hues that reflect the colour palette of the trompe l’...
...Carlyle recently beat out HarbourView and Blackstone’s Hipgnosis for Katy Perry’s catalogue with a bid for $225mn, according to several people familiar with the auction....
...British tennis player Fred Perry, who won Wimbledon three times, launched his version in 1952 with a laurel wreath as its signifier....
...March 28 to June 30; further information and tickets here ‘Impressionisti: l’alba della modernità’ (Impressionists: The Dawn of Modernity), Museo della Fanteria In honour of the 150th anniversary of the...
...A former loom-worker, Audrey Perry, describes how the noise from 80 looms in her workplace meant that operators had to learn to lip-read....
...The honours list, the first signed off by King Charles III, also includes awards for Melinda Simmons, Britain’s ambassador to Kyiv, and Deborah Bronnert, her counterpart in Moscow....
...Küfer joined Disguise in 2015, having previously worked in financial roles at companies including Lidl, L’Oréal, Ultra Motor and A2B Bikes....
...When Christie’s offered the 3m-high bird-esque fountain L’Oiseau Amoureux in its 2020 selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture, it “sold in excess of $600,000 from its former home on the edge of Lake Geneva...
...Artists have long explored the medium of wearability – everyone from Salvador Dalí to Grayson Perry and Anish Kapoor has tried their hand at jewellery – and art jeweller Cora Sheibani has for some years...
...L.S. Lowry has always been popular in the UK, but incredibly, not overseas....
...It’s rather trompe l’oeil.” The reading room that Phil Game built in a client’s garden for their punkish daughter was similarly eye-catching....
...MAY August Blue by Deborah Levy (Penguin/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Set in Athens, Levy’s new novel explores ideas of selfhood and femininity through a woman who believes she has glimpsed her double....
...Deborah Fuhr, founder of ETFGI, a consultancy, said Finra’s definition could include mutual funds and ETFs investing in everything from high-yield bonds and emerging markets to those based on quantitative...
...This year, showgoers wore their support for Ukraine in quiet but noticeable ways, in the form of yellow and blue ribbons (Tyler Perry), pins (Benedict Cumberbatch), pocket squares (Jason Momoa), and blue...
...Alex Israel contributed the enormous trompe-l’oeil mural depicting birds of paradise plants along the main stair....
...Donations can be made until 27 July; spacehive.com A star-dusted fashion sale to support the L’Wren Scott Scholarship Known for her glamorous red-carpet creations, L’Wren Scott dressed some of the most...
...They were joined by a host of individual executives, from Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett to Citigroup chief Jane Fraser, more than 60 law firms, and celebrities including Samuel L Jackson, Katy Perry...
...When in Paris, I live a few minutes from the Musée de l’Orangerie, where there’s a room with huge water lilies all around the walls....
...In Zambia’s South Luangwa and in Zimbabwe, C+L has partnered with Tusk Trust to give clients active placements in handpicked conservation projects – working (really working) alongside leading conservationists...
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