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...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...
...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....
...There’s a store in upstate New York called Available Items, and it’s run by this person named Chad [Phillips], who used to be the [retail] director of the Cooper Hewitt gift shop....
...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....
...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....
...Phillip Hennche, the brand’s director of channel innovation, says the partnership generated “huge” interest....
...James Roundell, previously a director at Dickinson, has joined Ward’s new business as a consultant....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...The browning took place mostly in the warmer, southern areas—confirming climate model predictions that warmer temperatures are pushing the biome to the north....
...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)....
...Sales from Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips are currently running at $10.8bn for the year to date, compared with $5.8bn for the same period last year, Bourron finds....
...“It was important to rebrand because you’re not going to get the same thing as in another David Zwirner space,” says director Ebony L Haynes....
...The top lot was Picasso’s “L’Étreinte” (1969), a painting of lovers in a passionate embrace, which sold for £12.6m (£14.7m with fees, est £11m-£16m)....
...Last year, Phillips included Rockwell’s “Before the Shot” (1958) in its higher-valued evening sale....
...Such is the case with Nicola L (1932-2018), a Morocco-born French artist who changed her surname to the letter L, the initial of both her maiden and married names (Leuthe and Lanzenberg)....
...In 2020, BlackRock voted against 62 directors because of climate-related issues....
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
...The auction was punctuated by several pieces by Andy Warhol, including a set of ten “Athletes” portraits, sold separately from the collection of the former investment banker Richard L....
...The managing director noted that monitoring of an IMF programme reform by an “outside group . . . is something that I have never heard of, (and) that none of my staff at the IMF had heard of”, but highlighted...
...Also included is Kerry James Marshall’s “Untitled (Blanket Couple)” (2014), bought with the Oslo museum in mind for $4.3m at a Phillips auction last year....
...Noah Horowitz, director of Art Basel Americas, says the platform goes beyond the market. “Look at Ralph Rugoff’s shows [in the Venice Biennale that opened this month]....
...“We were really drawn to his process,” says Karin Gustafsson, Cos’s creative director....
...On November 14, Phillips fielded its highest-ever total for a day sale at $20.7m ($25.7m with fees, 233 works) but this was below its $23.8m to $33.9m estimate....
...• RPMI, the British pension scheme for retired railway workers, has appointed Paul Sturgess as managing director of pensions business. Mr Sturgess joins from Equiniti....
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