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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....
...Before I experienced Barkley L Hendricks’ revelatory retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008, I had never seen more than a couple of his works at a time....
...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...
...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...
...“For cabinets and beautiful, small side tables, it was a way of making wood look like a jewel,” says L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach....
...These shapes have many facets to play with, and everyone from the Lebanese L’Atelier Nawbar to William Welstead, Alice Cicolini to Gucci, has been seduced....
...[Gallerist] Nina Johnson once gave me a Nicola L piece; it’s called Forest, and it was from a show that Nina had of Nicola’s work....
...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...
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...L-I-B-O-R. Harriet Clarfelt As the acronym kind of suggests, it started off in the UK. So it started the 1980s with the British Bankers’ Association....
...Denise L Ramos, a director on its sustainability committee, has a surprising side gig: chair of the public policy and sustainability committee at Texan oil refiner Phillips 66....
...Claer Barrett Deborah Meaden said a similar thing a few weeks ago . . . Simon Edelsten And the gap to my assessment of Yell and my assessment of Louis Vuitton wasn’t that big....
...Phillip Hennche, the brand’s director of channel innovation, says the partnership generated “huge” interest....
...Europe’s evening auctions of modern and contemporary art brought in a solid £311mn (£370mn with fees) at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips between June 28 and 30, yet showed signs of market fatigue....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...A Hard Rock International hotel joined Times Square earlier this month while developer L&L Holding and its partners are on track next year to open a $2.5bn tower with a luxury hotel, theatre and sprawling...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...Alexandre Ghotbi, head of watches at Phillips for continental Europe and the Middle East, suggests service watches are largely a “thing of the past”....
...On May 18, Phillips hit its highest ever sale total of $192mn ($225mn with fees)....
...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....
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...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...
...The highest price paid was £51.5mn (£59.4mn with fees; est £45mn, guaranteed), for René Magritte’s surrealist showstopper “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s on March 2, a record for the artist....
...But the real star of the moment is perhaps larger-than-life artist and fashion fanatic Phillip Nuveen, whose sideline in “couture miniatures” dazzles and disorientates....
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