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...I had marvellous friends — Leon, Lucian [Freud], Mike Andrews — full of courage, independence, unself-protection....
...The table was later featured by the artist in a picture, the 1971 “Portrait of Sir David Webster”, which sold for £12.8mn in 2020....
...A show I haven’t been able to stop thinking about was Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert’s sublime exhibition of Frank Auerbach’s self-portraits — I must have visited seven or eight times....
...Spotted in attendance this year were former Drexel bankers Leon Black, Marc Rowan and Richard Handler....
...I have embodied special agent Leon Kennedy, on a mission to rescue the daughter of the US president who had been kidnapped by a “mysterious cult”....
...Corporate records indicate that when DuRoss Ford died in May 2020, control of the property passed to her longtime lawyer and caregiver Frank Chopin....
...These shows inspired a cult for Soutine in the small avant-garde circle of artists — Leon Kossoff, his close friend Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon — loosely associated as the School of London...
...“Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker were among our first neighbours,” he says....
...In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the passage of what is known as the Dodd-Frank law, private credit and equity groups have assumed a much greater role....
...Qatalyst Group, the boutique investment bank founded by Silicon Valley banking legend Frank Quattrone, has hired Adam Meister as a managing director in San Francisco....
...The late Vogue editor André Leon Talley was in the audience and took Smith under his wing....
...He then worked for Van Cleef, Stephen Webster, Boodles, Garrard and Fabergé, before returning to Ireland....
...One thing to start: Lawyers for a woman who accuses Leon Black of rape have asked a court for permission to quit the case, marking a dramatic turn in a lawsuit that the private equity billionaire has maintained...
...A vivacious hostess, Leite Fontes is frank and funny, creating a convivial atmosphere in which patrons are encouraged to get to know each other....
...While Cleo is dependent on Frank’s money, Frank is dependent on alcohol....
...So too with Leon Kossoff’s tour de force “Willesden Junction, Early Morning”: flowing ochre/umber/grey impasto railway tracks meet a streaked creamy dawn sky, luminous despite its weighty surface, hefty...
...It’s part of a growing trend to collect sneakers as sure investments “like Rolexes or wine”, says Kick Game founder Robert Franks....
...But it carries two risks: first, forever thinking how frank he’s going to be could lead people to question his sincerity and wonder whether his every utterance is calculated rather than heartfelt....
...The moves are among the strongest changes to oversight of the fast-growing private financial markets since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act a decade ago....
...Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach were the postwar British artists who let paint do the talking....
...Leon Black, the former Drexel merger banker turned private equity kingpin, showed up months after he resigned as head of Apollo Global Management following the exposure of his financial ties to paedophile...
...The model’s frank expression conveys Neel’s view of pregnancy as “a basic fact of life” but is also a prime example of the intimacy that the artist created with her subjects as a chronicler of everyday New...
...“Overall, we have not seen enough foresight for how the ‘last mile’ will work,” Frank Appel, Deutsche Post DHL chief executive, told the Financial Times. “That is the key bottleneck.”...
...I also have a beautiful candlestick by Josef Frank with two angels and a brass wishing tree which is dressed with lots of little baubles....
...(New York Times) After Archegos In the wake of the financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act was supposed to stop history from repeating itself....
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