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...This analyses sales of unique works at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, with data from ArtTactic....
...He met South Carolina naturalist Maria Martin, who painted some of the flora and insects in The Birds of America, in 1831. Audubon’s journals show a conservationist’s mindset....
...Mumbai’s deco-style Marine Drive makes its presence felt in Flora Bhattachary’s Deco series, featuring octagonal aquamarines....
...MoMA immediately acquired half the panels (the Phillips Collection in Washington took the rest)....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...“We don’t see this as a burden but as an opportunity,” says Phillip Shalless, senior asset manager at Axa. After all, the building needs something to shout about after a difficult birth....
...The tectonic plates shifted and with them so did flora and fauna....
...Captain Arthur Phillips’ First Fleet is seen anchored in the harbour, the ships’ pennants unfurling in a stylised breeze. Encampments, garden plots and farmland dot the coast....
...Flora Yukhnovich’s loose rococo-inspired painting is one highlight; another is Caroline Walker’s moody green-tinted snapshot of a woman’s living room....
...Nor is the excellent Agius Evolution Garden, laid out in 2019 to present the world’s evolving flora age by age. It combines the results of scientific study with beauty and real surprises....
...On a bright evening in London last week, three paintings hung at the front of the Phillips auction room for its 20th-century and contemporary art sale....
...Overall, and thanks to the Banksy, Sotheby’s evening auction came in above its presale estimates to make £55.5m (£65.9m with fees), while Christie’s and Phillips totalled within estimate, respectively at...
...Rolex Bao Dai Ref 6062, $5.2m, Phillips, 2017 According to specialist watch website Hodinkee, only three models of this style are known to exist, and the watch that sold at Phillips in 2017 has an intriguing...
...The basic principle of preserving flora has changed little since Darwin’s time: both in the wild and in the Laboratory, plants must be dried swiftly to preserve their colour and shape....
...This will contrast with lush green Asian flora at the other end of the space, where shady woodland will surround a central square enclosed by pleached ironwood trees, Parrotia persica — a planting priority...
...“Bad Cake”, Yeoh’s take on the sin of gluttony, delivered twists of syncopated modernism, while her “Flora and Fauna”, written for Flora Purim, combined fragile minimalism with a firm samba....
...Marc Newson’s aluminium sofa, the Lockheed Lounge, sold at Phillips for £2.4m in 2015, making it the most expensive work by a living designer....
...To his partner Flora’s evident frustration, Masters doesn’t do what most biographers would do: set the books in date order and read them from earliest to most recent....
...RWC also recently hired Jillian Smythe to work in sales, from Plurimi Capital, along with Flora Summerfield from Cardano, the consultancy....
...Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of World Monuments Fund Britain Photographs: Gareth Phillips; Bridgeman...
...Phillip Lim’s 3.1 spring collection, for example, was rooted (pun intended) to the most basic and elemental components of Mother Earth....
...Christopher Grey-Wilson is a senior doyen of alpine plants and together with Phillip Cribb he has compiled an invaluable Guide To The Flowers Of Western China (Royal Botanic Gardens, £70)....
...Readers who are recovering from the Chelsea Flower Show or the Taipei International Flora Exposition should be aware that this is not that sort of flower show....
...(My middle name is Flora.) The number of goals I did not score in that shirt during my netball career runs well into the low millions. “I’d like you to treat me like your favourite grandma,” I began....
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