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...Sotheby’s brought in Martin and his previous company, Orion Analytical, after it found a painting that the auction house had sold privately as by Frans Hals for £8.4mn was a modern forgery....
...In one version, Stone had Hal Holbrook’s character Lou Mannheim, the honourable broker and stand-in for his dad, succumb to insider information....
...The Portrait by Richard Corrigan (National Portrait Gallery) St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE Good for: Splendid views, delicious food with a sense of occasion Not so good for: A quick snack FYI: The...
...Tata Sons’ aerospace and defence division has long-running joint ventures with Lockheed Martin and Boeing, for which it makes aircraft sections....
...Chair Tim Martin said the company would be lossmaking in the first half of its financial year, but hoped that performance in the second half would be “much stronger”....
...Footage from Harlem — shot by the late director Hal Tulchin for a proposed documentary — ended up in his basement. For half a century, the movie never happened....
...Rothschild & Co has appointed Charles Martin, a veteran lawyer at the UK law firm Macfarlanes, as a senior adviser in London....
...With the recent rally in the oil price, HAL shares are up >125% from the bottom....
...In a letter to his brother in 1886, Vincent van Gogh said of the Dutch Golden Age artist Frans Hals that he had “no fewer than 27 blacks”....
...With his round, cheerful face, he looks as if he has sprung out of a Frans Hals painting....
...Also vying for the unit were buyout group Apollo Global Management, Hal Investments and a consortium of Bain Capital and Advent International....
...Martin Kemp, a British expert on da Vinci, has declared it to be the Italian master’s work....
...This week saw a Socratic dialogue in New York, in which Hal Scott, a Harvard Law School professor, interrogated academics, lawyers and investors. The conclusion, it appeared to me, rested on collusion....
...Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life, by Hal Gregersen MIT’s Gregersen starts from the observation, based on his own experience as a teacher...
...“I do understand/ Why you want no more/ F***ing treatment,” she sings on “Don’t Go”, written for her long-term guitarist, Martin Stone, who died in 2016....
...Last week, two experts on financial regulation, Hal Scott and Lisa Donner, went head to head on the question of whether the US should loosen its rules for banks....
...Martin Wolf Economics must see its limits Is an inescapably flawed intellectual discipline better than none? This is, in essence, the debate between Tom Clark and Chris Giles....
...After Sotheby’s sent it for scientific tests to James Martin, a forensic art analyst, he concluded that pigments present in the painting showed it could not have been painted in the 17th century, when Hals...
...Sotheby’s fell victim to a forger this year when it repaid a US buyer £8.4m for a painting the auction house had sold as the work of the Dutch artist Frans Hals....
...The Parmigianino story follows the exposure of a fake portrait said to be by the Dutch artist Frans Hals, which Sotheby’s sold for £8.4m before discovering it was a forgery after analysis by Mr Martin....
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...Unwilling to give the criminals any tips, Martin declines to talk about specific cases such as the Frans Hals....
...Martin found the Hals to be a forgery; there is no update on the Parmigianino. Martin’s expertise extends across other fields....
...What we do know is that Hal Martin loves his family and his country. He served this nation honourably in the US Navy.”...
...Sotheby’s is purchasing Orion Analytical, set up by Jamie Martin. He showed the bogus Hals had been executed partly in Dulux Deep Peach Glow, or some other historically improbable pigment....
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