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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) —...
...It has been a gradual demise for the gallery, which was founded by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer in 1946 and in its postwar heyday boasted the likes of Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego on its...
...Frank Bowling’s “Middle Passage” (1970), hot reds and oranges surging across a map of Africa and ghostly figural outlines, is a glowing abstraction....
...Previous names in traditional music crop up in their conversation, from Dublin street ballad specialist Frank Harte to 1970s folk band Planxty....
...Frank Creyelman was used as an asset by Chinese spies for more than three years, an investigation last week by the FT, Der Spiegel and Le Monde revealed....
...British Columbia’s most popular radio station being broadcast from its penthouse studio, and for its role as the local industry’s de facto locale for hosting visiting musicians, including the likes of Frank...
...Chris Francis on alto sax, Jim Dvorak — an American who relocated to the UK to escape the Vietnam draft — on trumpet and pianist Frank Roberts all follow the form and play to the edge....
...An early work by Francis Bacon, made when he was still a decorator in the 1920s, shows an eerie combination of ghostly figures and columns....
...Zelenskyy met Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz, president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other officials a day after visiting Rome to meet Italian leaders and Pope Francis....
...I’ve recently discovered the work of Swiss designer Beat Frank, who designed an incredible furniture collection for Le Corbusier’s Convent of La Tourette in 1994....
...What to watch today German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier begins a three-day visit to Kyrgyzstan Pope Francis hosts Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Vatican....
...Auerbach, now 91, was an associate of Francis Bacon and is a contemporary of Lucian Freud and David Hockney....
...Madagascar New brand Nissaba’s Grande Île (€160 for 100ml) is created by perfumer Frank Voelkl (the nose behind Le Labo’s Santal 33) and is a Malagasy pepper and vanilla evocation of Madagascar....
...The space has been rethought by London-based architect Alex Cochrane, with plaster roundels of artists Louis-François Roubiliac, Hans Holbein the Younger and Francis Leggatt Chantrey overlooking the wares...
...Until February 15; further information and tickets here February Art ‘Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads’, The Courtauld The first ever ensemble of the huge charcoal portraits that Auerbach produced...
...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...
...Frank Jotzo, a report author, said mitigation policies had already helped avoid several gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year....
...And so he painted this portrait of himself that borders on [Francis] Bacon grotesque....
...Last week, Knight Frank forecast that house prices in London would fall 10 per cent over the next two years — a highly unusual move for an estate agency, which adds to independent analysis and bank predictions...
...Its association with tailoring began in the ’70s with the launch of a biannual menswear collection, and it notably dressed Frank Sinatra in a black tuxedo in the mid-’90s....
...At the time they were “welcomed with open arms by London’s galleries”, says their adviser, Francis Outred....
...It showcases the group of British artists that included Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews and Frank Auerbach with a treasure-trove of works — some well-known, some loaned from discreet private...
...Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach were the postwar British artists who let paint do the talking....
...It appears that the New York mafia — and their friend, Frank Sinatra — aren’t too pleased with the way they believe they’ve been characterised in Puzo’s novel....
...A hefty, domed head of painter Frank Auerbach, dominated by his vast forehead, seems to depict the process of thought itself....
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