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...Sotheby’s brought in Martin and his previous company, Orion Analytical, after it found a painting that the auction house had sold privately as by Frans Hals for £8.4mn was a modern forgery....
...Frans van Mieris drew a blue taffeta curtain partway across an impossibly opulent floral arrangement by Adriaen van der Spelt. The result is a spectacle of magic....
...Solvers can expect to see shortened forms of political parties and groupings crop up regularly — L and LIB for Liberal, LAB for Labour, R and REP for Republican (and sometimes GOP), D and DEM for Democrat...
...While the work Salgado is showing in Amazônia is peaceful and untroubled, he has had a second show in Paris called Blessure (“Injury”), at L’espace Frans Krajcberg, with pictures of the destroyed Amazon....
...Frans Timmermans, the EU’s green boss, says “it rocks”. Shell chief Ben van Beurden says “we cannot aim to be a net-zero economy [without it].”...
...Coming up today Frans Timmermans, EU vice-president in charge of the green deal, takes part in a fireside chat as part of the FT’s Energy Transition Strategies summit from 15.00 (CET)....
...Among the missing fare were a 1986 portrait by Francis Bacon (est £12m-£18m) and a 1635 painting by Frans Hals (est £2m-£3m)....
...Whichever shape the recovery takes — V, W or L — any emissions decline flattens out by the middle of the decade....
...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....
...His research has focused on matching the attic work to a 1607 description by the Flemish painter Frans Pourbus and to a known copy of the lost painting, attributed to the artist and dealer Louis Finson (...
...Barnier’s boy Nicolas Barnier, son of Michel, wants to run as an MEP hopeful for Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche, reports l'Opinion....
...Lutter seems especially pleased with her photograph of Frans Snyders’s 17th-century painting “Game Market”, featuring a smorgasbord of hunted birds, pigs, rabbits and such....
...D&L Lemon Mayonnaise, £2.49....
...“A-L-E-X!” cries Antoine. It’s awful — with each tumble, I feel less able and less willing to get up again. I’m beginning to feel like Rupert Brooke. Antoine has to help....
...Jumps in pension liabilities are conveniently dumped in the oubliette of comprehensive income, rather that written off through the P&L....
...“It was a special moment,” he said, as specialists handed over a small “Portrait of a Man”, seemingly by the Dutch artist Frans Hals....
...Andersen Vice-Chairman of ERT, Chief Executive Officer, AP Møller-Mærsk Vittorio Colao Chief Executive Officer, Vodafone Group ERT members: Jean-Paul Agon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, L’Oréal...
...The Prince’s curator Dr Johann Kräftner told me that two other works — a Frans Hals and a Guercino — were also suspect....
...idea of béton brut — using raw concrete on the surface of buildings, as exemplified by Le Corbusier, who employed it in everything from housing estates to monasteries — and with Jean Dubuffet’s notion of l’...
...Another chiselled man in a cream-coloured tracksuit and Timberland boots assumes a gallant pose borrowed from Frans Hals’s “Willem van Heythuysen Posing with a Sword”....
...“What we do is very personal,” explains Frans Post, chief executive of GPW, the business intelligence group....
...There is life everywhere: Johannes Moreelse’s ghoulish “Democritus, The Laughing Philosopher” stretches his finger in mockery; Carel Fabritius’s trompe l’oeil chained “The Goldfinch” – now a celebrity picture...
...Then the bulk of the collection, 48 works, was shown in a three-museum tour in Cologne, Kassel and at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem between 2008 and 2009....
...Giacometti is, of course, one of the highest priced modern artists, whose “L’homme qui marche I” (1961) sold last year for £65m to billionaire Lily Safra....
...“They just can’t assume the risk; it has the most detrimental cash effect on the company when the P&L [profit and loss account] itself is also in bad weather....
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