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...‘The Swimming Pool’, 1952, by Henri Matisse (Room 406) Having to select just one Matisse from MoMA’s spectacular trove was a conundrum....
...Artists such as Faith Ringgold, Jacob Lawrence and Betye Saar in the US were making work about their predicament at the same time as Nigeria’s Modernists such as Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko were wrangling...
...Nearby, his handblown glass Dark Vernus I chandelier sheds new light on two 19th-century bronze busts of a black man and woman by the French sculptor Charles-Henri Cordier....
...Additional reporting by Justin Jacobs in Houston...
...One sculpture on the visitor route at Chatsworth, “Bust of an African Woman” by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (1851), depicts a formerly enslaved woman in bronze....
...She made the first sale for Henri Matisse....
...There, Fénéon signed an exclusive contract to represent a virtually unknown painter: Henri Matisse....
.../ From Henri Lorie, Chapel Hill, NC, US Mnuchin’s diplomacy has been worthy of Kissinger / From Gray Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY, US, Member, Federal Reserve Board’s Insurance Policy Advisory Committee...
...It named Lazard bankers Charles-Henri Filippi and François Kayat as co-chairs of investment banking in France....
...When Henri Cartier-Bresson came to photograph Freud in 1997, they met at the studio, talked briefly and went out to lunch. “Well, when do you want to make the photograph?”...
...Dina Vierny may be best remembered as the model and muse of Henri Matisse and the sculptor Aristide Maillol, and founder of what became the Musée Maillol in Paris in 1995....
...Marc Jacobs applied generous amounts of Miracle-Gro to his silk rose sashes, corsages and chokers; so gigantically do they swell off his satiny dresses and blouses, they morph later in his collection into...
...Did the Peak farmer know his Jacob’s Ladder “shortcut” up a hill would one day become a protected national monument? Possibly not. But I’m very glad he built it anyway....
...John Gapper asks what Kering, the luxury group led by François-Henri Pinault that owns Gucci, has done right. Do open letters penned by academics make any difference?...
...Jacobs, typically, is not satisfied with that. He has turned to a new completion by Pierre-Henri Dutron and a lengthy essay in the booklet details Dutron’s aims and methodology....
...When it comes to brands such as Hermès and Gucci, with their floral fantasias or Henri Rousseau-esque jungles, scarves can be a wearable work of art....
...I sit on a [Georges and François Henri Georges] Jacob sofa, I eat off 18th-century porcelain....
...Sudjic alights on perhaps one of the most interesting and unfamiliar: the story of Henri Prost (1874-1959), the French architect who created plans for Fez, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Ankara and Istanbul and...
...Drawing on Kettle’s Yard’s excellent Gaudier holdings, it also features work by Rodin and by British modernists David Bomberg, Wyndham Lewis and Jacob Epstein....
...“Each time André Kertész’s shutter clicks, I hear his heart beating,” said Henri Cartier-Bresson....
...Direct carving — raw, anti-academic and influenced by non-western models — was embraced by Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska before the first world war....
...Charles Jacobs, partner, Linklaters Charles Jacobs grew up in South Africa before moving to the UK and joining Linklaters as a trainee....
...Among the 810 lots are 12 bottles of 1978 DRC Montrachet, estimated at HK$400,000-HK$600,000 and a single magnum of 1978 Henri Jayer Cros Parantoux, estimated to sell for in excess of HK$110,000-HK$160,000...
...The Wagners cite the example of Jacob Kassay, who had an initial solo show in 2009 in a Manhattan gallery, selling his silvery-surfaced mirror-like paintings for $6,000-$8,000....
...The fact that Jacob Rothschild has accepted the role of host is perhaps more surprising....
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