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...Sotheby’s will offer the first in a group of Francis Bacon’s visceral portraits of his lover, George Dyer, for between $30mn and $50mn in May, a potential boost to a downbeat art market....
...Later she worked with directors Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper to turn 60 hours of raw footage into Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, perhaps the best film ever made about the making of a film...
...Artex aims to raise $55mn via a private placement and use the proceeds to buy Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, a Francis Bacon triptych described on page 36 of the preliminary offer memorandum...
...He even mentored and funded the young George Lucas before Lucas went ballistic with American Graffiti and Star Wars....
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...While attending a major funeral was costly (more than £1,000 in today’s currency for a restricted view of the crimson-covered coffins containing George IV’s 21-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte and her...
...For this evening sale, the auction house will offer three works from a collection of 20th-century art estimated between £6.8mn and £9.4mn and dominated by Francis Bacon’s “Study of George Dyer” (1970, £5mn...
...The Lamb family sold the house to local banker Francis Bellingham in 1893....
...Called Artex, the new exchange — regulated by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority with an EU licence — opens with the listing of Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer” (1963...
...We’ve been promised all year that shares in the painting above, Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer”, will be the first to trade on a newly formed art exchange that’s being set up...
...Francis Bacon crops up repeatedly as both muse and subject: the master’s bulbous nose, bruised lips and unkempt hair embody the two artists’ shared obsessions with sex, death and carnage....
...In January 2013, Vanity Fair’s Italian edition put him on its cover proclaiming “to be beautiful is not a sin”, and calling him “the George Clooney of St Peter’s”....
...Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick Institute, who led an independent review of science and innovation for the UK government which urged rejoining Horizon, said any deal would be celebrated by...
...Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse, head of the Francis Crick Institute in London, urged the politicians to stop quibbling over relatively small sums of money and get a deal done....
...Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas....
...Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his brother George...
...Additional reporting by George Parker in London and Adrienne Klasa in Paris...
...John HerbstSenior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, the US Ambassador to Ukraine 2003-06 Danylo LubkivskyDirector of the Kyiv Security Forum, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine in 2014 Francis...
There was a stellar soprano debut in the all-star cast for Poulenc’s drama of faith and fanaticism
...Now they are taking the resulting compositions from east to west themselves, starting with a brief residency at George Mason University in Virginia and then touring eight venues across California....
...Cardinal George Pell, the former head of the Vatican’s finances who was jailed for historical child sexual abuse before being acquitted, has died in Rome at the age of 81....
...Francis Rooney, a former Congressman and ambassador to the Vatican under George W Bush, opposes Trump’s “isolationism” and tariffs, and has deep concerns about his authoritarian tendencies, from when he...
...“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,” wrote George Bernard Shaw, “you may as well make it dance.”...
...It is tempting, for example, to take George Soros’ theory of reflexivity or Ray Dalio’s talk about five big forces of history seriously as predictive frameworks....
...information here soon November Art ‘Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930’, Guggenheim More than 100 works exploring the early-20th-century Orphism movement, including pieces by Marcel Duchamp, Francis...
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