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...Dealer Nick Maclean says that bidding at Christie’s on Francis Bacon’s “Landscape near Malabata, Tangier” (1963) — which went to adviser Francis Outred for a within-estimate £16.8mn (£19.6mn with fees) —...
...Recent posts have included a painting, Two Owls, No. 1, 1959, by Francis Bacon, and images of models walking in their summer 2024 catwalk show....
...A key accelerant was the introduction of resident ambassadors for the first time in Europe in the 15th century, according to Bill Sherman, professor of Renaissance studies at the University of York....
...It’s Francis Bacon all the way to the Irish painter Genieve Figgis.”...
...Cindy Sherman’s early studio self-inventions “Untitled (Murder Mystery People)” are here, and Carolee Schneeman’s nude performances in “Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera”....
...For Francis Bacon, being photographed wearing fairly fresh clothing — like the shirt and sweater he wore for a portrait by Cecil Beaton — was his way to exert control over the chaos and filth of his studio...
...There was a lot going on, especially with women artists like Cindy Sherman; they were developing incredible work and creating new languages....
...It also brought on Matt Francis as its first chief technology officer and Elliott Wilke as chief growth officer....
...“It’s heavier than a Sherman tank. It’s too small. And it’s as stealthy as a Ford Transit full of spanners,” he said....
...As Rana Foroohar wrote last month, Miami’s mayor Francis Suarez made it enticing with tax credits, low interest rate loans and other economic benefits....
...There’s also a Cindy Sherman picture where she’s wearing a white shirt and watering a garden. When I saw it hanging at the FIAC fair in Paris, my heart stopped....
...My FT colleague Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson reports that Pope Francis has joined a new coalition of investors trying to redeem capitalism....
...In a Foreign Affairs article, Francis Fukuyama argues that the foundation of any political order, quite obviously so in a pandemic, is an effective government....
...This month it begins a series of special exhibitions that showcase the V-A-C collection, a trove of international modern and contemporary work that ranges from Modigliani to Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon...
...This column went to press before Sotheby’s, Phillips and Christie’s fielded a potential £200m-plus works — including a landmark 1971 Francis Bacon at Christie’s estimated to make between £60m-£80m....
...The Sherman Theatre routinely wins prizes for its productions....
...(Gagosian represents Saville, Sherman and Peyton; Dumas and Yuskavage are with his global rival David Zwirner.)...
...The parable of the ox In 1906 the great statistician Francis Galton observed a competition to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair in which 800 people entered....
...Canarutto describes the charismatic countess as “a Cindy Sherman” figure. It is a reminder that contemporary art finds rich pickings in the eccentricities of the past....
...look so sad once the utopians have left; a Steve McQueen, also very haunting, of a lynching tree; an enormous Gursky of Bangkok; a Baldessari painting based on a photograph of cars; a huge double Cindy Sherman...
...There is a tension in photography between photographer and subject – Sherman immediately took on both....
...The most comically disingenuous of her promises in front of 10 Downing Street on the night of electoral victory, attributed wrongly to St Francis, was to preach, “Where there is discord, may we bring harmony...
...Last year at Art Basel, FT critic Francis Hodgson reckoned that some 60 per cent of the booths were showing photographic images of some sort....
...Robust estimates on works by Francis Bacon and Roy Lichtenstein, in the $30m-$40m range, at Sotheby’s contemporary sale the following day, are further evidence of a market upswing....
...Cindy Sherman’s new pictures are so huge that they are made on wallpaper....
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