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...Earlier this year, Lacey and Gary Riger finally gave up looking for their first home....
...Another is Francis Bacon’s “Study for a Pope VI”, last of six depictions following Velázquez in an important 1961 series....
...The sportswear group has bolstered its board with US entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, who will advise the group on marketing and brand development in North America....
...“Francis did not handpick board members. This isn’t a board that are friends of Francis,” he said....
...Forty artists feature, exploring the influence of photography on painters such as Picasso, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Alice Neel, as well as the painterly photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto...
...Pope Francis will preside over the event. You can read his obituary here. What else we’re reading and looking at How serious is the threat of new Covid-19 variants?...
...Auerbach, now 91, was an associate of Francis Bacon and is a contemporary of Lucian Freud and David Hockney....
...Francis Breedon: The inflation outlook remains highly uncertain....
...Do you acquire what the market boosts or fashion promotes — one each of Koons, Warhol, Richter and Twombly, say? Not if you’re Ronald Lauder....
...Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s chief executive, insisted the prime minister had “made the right call”....
...Sotheby’s scored the highest price of the season — £23mn (£24.3mn with fees) for Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes” (1963, third-party guarantee), though this was below its...
...In Vatican City on Sunday, Pope Francis will lead Easter Mass in St Peter’s Square. Join us for the FT’s Crypto and Digital Assets summit on April 26-27....
...In my first Art Basel, I sold a [Gerhard] Richter abstract for $240,000.” At this year’s fair, Richter’s “I.G.” (1993) sold for an undisclosed price, put at “above $10mn” by the gallery....
...It recently appointed US entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk as an adviser to its board and is targeting further expansion in the US, which is already its biggest market....
...Lately, he’s become “quite Francis Bacon obsessed”. No surprise that Jones is drawn to another darkly romantic cultural icon, not to mention one of the most expensive artists on the market today....
...“These ballot results are off the Richter scale. There are just a lot of pissed-off people saying something has to give.”...
...Pope Francis will visit the small Alberta prairie community of Maskwacis, site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School, now largely torn down....
...It’s by Francis Maude. It was commissioned a year ago to look at how the civil service could be reformed to be more responsive to the needs of government....
...Pope Francis said he did not understand why many people — including many in the Catholic church — were refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19....
...Liberalism and Its Discontentsby Francis Fukuyama, Profile £16.99/Farrar Straus and Giroux $26 Fukuyama has been one of the most influential political theorists in the west for more than 30 years....
...industrial product and raw materials price indices India, Serbia, Switzerland: Q4 GDP figures UK, British Retail Consortium’s monthly economic briefing Results: Bank of Ireland FY, Bunzl FY, HP Q1, Gedeon Richter...
...The Praemium Imperiale, Nobel equivalent for visual arts, recognised as much in awarding 2021’s painting prize (former laureates Hockney, Twombly, Richter) to rainforest photographer Sebastião Salgado....
...With Francis Bacon, clearly another influence, he shares the heat of male sexual desire, as well as the centrality of the studio to his very existence....
...Meanwhile, Gerhard Richter, in a layered oil and watercolour abstraction, scrapes, splatters, ruptures, blurs surfaces to ask why and how painting still exists....
...Noble Francis, economics director at the CPA, said the price rises and shortages were “already hitting contractors”....
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