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...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...L’Objet, meanwhile, has taken modern marquetry to the next level with its Edgar collection, which features a design with a triangle of burr dyed striking blue – “accentuating the preciousness of the wood...
...The artist perhaps best known for committing dance to canvas is Edgar Degas, who obsessively turned out some 1,500 depictions of ballet dancers between the 1860s and the early 1900s, including bronze sculptures...
...Manet’s most controversial family picture, “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (1863), a nude woman seated at a picnic between two clothed figures, one based on Manet’s brother, the other on his brother-in-law, hangs...
...Aged 72, he stood to cheer Nijinsky’s explicitly sexual movements and gestures in the Ballets Russes’s L’après-midi d’un faune at its Paris premiere in 1912....
...Today, it employs more than 1,000 staff and serves a roster of multinational companies in the Philippines that includes Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal and Nestlé....
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...Now it makes sense why such a powerhouse line-up of international A-listers — Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, plus less renowned stars Diane Kruger, Fan Bingbing and man-candy Edgar Ramírez...
...Other benefits include invitations to wine dinners with Michelin-starred chefs such as Simon Rogan (L’Enclume)....
...In 2004, Miguel Rodriguez, owner of Swiss watch brand Festina-Lotus, bought the L Leroy brand and re-established it in Besançon....
...Propped on rue Villejust’s piano was Edgar Allan Poe’s musical poem “The Raven”, illustrated by Manet, recounting the bird’s mysterious visit to a mad lover....
...After such astonishing crime epics as L.A....
...Los Angeles Opera is launching its online winter season with L'Amant anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) in a new critical edition....
...The Kaufmann Office has been in store for most of the time since it was presented to the V&A museum by Edgar J....
...Mark Townsend’s No Return (Faber RRP£12.99, April) is the instructive story of five jihadis whose dark trajectory towards Syria could have been prevented....
...However, the museum will not only show his collection — various collaborations are planned, with the Giacometti Foundation and the Swiss-based Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, among others....
.... £32; swatch.com And the thing I’m eyeing next is a book by one of my idols, Edgar Morin....
...score of Verdi’s Nabucco; and one of two surviving scores of the first public opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea, written by Monteverdi in 1642....
...The year was 1938, and MGM was making a movie of L Frank Baum’s 1900 book The Wizard of Oz. America needed cheering up as it struggled to haul itself from the Great Depression. War loomed in Europe....
...A recent “find” is the boutique hotel Fundació l’Olivar in Ventalló, Spain....
...It’s also a little surprising not to see Washington, DC’s J Edgar Hoover Building here, the FBI headquarters where the aesthetic and the purpose somehow seem to find a perfect match....
...Other artists whose works were included were Paul Klee, Edgar Degas, Wassily Kandinsky and René Magritte....
...“Each mosaic is designed specifically for the client and for the building that will house it, whether that’s a leaf design around an alcove or a humorous trompe l’oeil-style work on the floor,” he says....
...Townsend, the American who fell in love with Icelandic harvesting, apparently never set up eider reservations in North America....
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