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...The Bacon, once in the collection of author Roald Dahl, was reportedly sold last week by the hedge funder Pierre Lagrange, also believed to be the seller of Frank Auerbach’s “Head of EOW II” (1964), which...
...Monday Germany: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II on a state visit to Berlin South Africa: five-day Africa Energy Week conference begins in Cape Town, where business executives...
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...In 1906, Leopold II created L’Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK) along with a diamond-mining business and railway company to exploit Congo’s mineral resources....
...des espèces II” by Yves Tanguy and “Le parc du vautour” by René Magritte, both of which come to auction for first time....
...Who Aspen Snowmass Sotheby’s International Realty, tel +1 970 923 2006 Private estate, Saint Jean de Cannes, Les Adrets-de-l’Estérel, France, €53m Where In the Provençal village of Les Adrets-de-l’Estérel...
...But I’ll be very frank, even about my predecessors, France is not a country that underinvested in health....
...I actually read the French version, which has a prettier title, Le Charme Discret de l’Intestin....
...Trompe l’oeil is everywhere....
...The annual Foire Internationale à la Brocante et l’Antiquité attracts around 500 vendors....
...“Study for a Portrait of P.L.” (1962), an unsparing depiction of the artist’s lover Peter Lacy scowling on a sofa, is the first Bacon picture where internal organs burst out though the surface of the skin...
...He also named a volume of aphorisms after the city, L’Ombra di Venezia....
...“La Capucines à ‘La Danse II” repeats his own whirling figures from Shchukin’s panels, competing with the natural growth of flowers....
...Angel L....
...What A grade II-listed, six-bedroom country house built in 1894 for Hugh Grosvenor, the 1st Duke of Westminster....
...Tate’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe”, a bold sprawl of steel whose gloopy, unruly folds mock the mannered drama of Manet’s masterpiece, is surely an escapee from YSP’s show....
...Who Joyce Rey, joycerey.com or villasorrisonapavalley.com, tel: +1 310 285 7529 Top photograph: Flight-Sight S.L....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 1344 624 732...
...Dickinson’s gallery is currently leading the sales board after dispatching a canvas by Frank Auerbach for a seven-figure sum....
...What : A Grade II* listed Georgian house set in 643 acres, with views across the lake to the Berkshire Downs....
...www.decodame.com ii Yoke-back armchair Chinese This chair was made in China in the 17th century, during the late Ming or early Qing dynasty – a period in which increased trade with the west had created...
...The OK sofa, produced in Norway by L.K. Hjelle was presented in February at the Stockholm Furniture Fair....
...Tyler L, Brunskwick, ME NB: I agree that getting rid of marked-to-market would be a mistake....
...Ghost Rider runs out of oomph very swiftly, helped to a standstill by a cast (Cage, Fonda, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott) encouraged to talk v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, like 78rpm records when someone has forgotten...
...THE MESSIAH MYTH: The Near Eastern Rootsof Jesus and Davidby Thomas L....
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