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...Modern Art’s 2,000 sq ft, second-floor space will be in a Haussmann-designed building on Place de l’Alma in the city’s central eighth arrondissement....
...Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini leather sandals, £470 Givenchy cotton vest, £550, and matching cutout trompe l’oeil trousers with apron, £850....
...This season he turned again to Dora Kallmus, aka Madame d’Ora, an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who captured “extraordinary women that often played with gender fluidity”, he said backstage....
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
...Life with Aubergines” (1911). maison-matisse.com Campbell’s scented candle by Ligne Blanche £50 A quirky take on Warhol’s famous “Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962), made in France. selfridges.com Gilded Dora...
...“We sought to rid ourselves of the trompe l’oeil in order to find the ‘trompe l’esprit’.” Picasso spent a lifetime exploring those implications, recasting representation as invention....
...The French Creole “L’Année Passée”, by Calypso Rhythm Kings, provided the melody for the song many of us know as “Rum and Coca-Cola”. Women are more prominent than on previous volumes....
...In 1894, he co-founded the art magazine L’Ymagier with the Symbolist writer, Remy de Gourmont....
...At Da Dora, where walls are lined with photographs of visiting celebrities, the lobster pasta is the must-try....
...“Because of the way the water runs through the rock, if you do anything it affects everyone else,” our guide Dora Cappiello told us the next morning....
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...Walter and her successor Dora Maar came to physical blows in Picasso’s studio, and they tough it out here, too....
...A milestone in art history is Marcel Duchamp’s 1919 “L.H.O.O.Q”, the first of his cheeky takes on the Mona Lisa....
...She was replaced, after she had given birth to Widmaier-Picasso’s mother Maya in 1935, by the spiky intellectual photographer Dora Maar....
...“In my first book I wanted to reply to all those people whose insults hurt me on account of my father,” writes Modiano in Dora Bruder (1997) — his peerless book about his investigation into the disappearance...
...Brassai’s accompanying photographs of the rue des Grands-Augustins studio includes an image where Picasso, in 1944, shows an array of his Dora paintings – an enclosed, self-contained world....
...But so is something else – la chute and l’éclairage, fall and illumination....
...The appendix explains that this episode is based on Freud’s most famous case, involving a patient known as Dora....
...the magnificent “Femme accroupie au costume turc”, Jacqueline in blue against a crimson pattern of Moorish tiles recalls at once Matisse’s oriental fantasies and the exaggerated, melancholy features of Dora...
...Sotheby’s is selling several works by Picasso, with the highlight being his 1941 portrait of his mistress, “Dora Maar au Chat”, expected to go for $50m....
...Significantly, France’s most exciting museum-building project is not in Paris but in Marseilles, the centre of north African culture in France, where a grandiose Musee des Civilisations de l’Europe et de...
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