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...He filled it with artworks by contemporary artists and designers such as Jeff Koons and it became the National Trust’s most visited house....
...That’s the view I had when I was a kid: that it was too serious and you had to have a certain kind of taste to understand it,” says José Balvin, aka J Balvin, the Latin reggaeton superstar who ranks among...
...Yoshimoto Nara’s “Be Happy” (1995), which had sold for around $350,000 in 2006, went for $6.4mn on Tuesday, while Jeff Koons went in the opposite direction....
...On the flip side, artists Marilyn Minter, George Condo and, less convincingly, Koons talk about their deep need to create, regardless of the payday....
...(She had previously held positions at Chinese antiquities gallery J. Lally and contemporary galleries including Barbara Gladstone.) “We have rules,” she says of their buying....
...Additional reporting by Jim Pickard in London and David J Lynch in Washington...
...J Sainsbury also reported flagging sales growth this week....
...Or did his instinct to sanctify the kitsch and cloying emerge from memories of his father’s home decor store, Henry J Koons Decorators, where, Rothkopf recounts, “he witnessed first-hand the power of merchandise...
...Bank J Safra Sarasin has hired Serge Ledermann as head of asset management in Switzerland....
...The proposed buyout is being led by Tiak Koon Loh, chief executive, and Edward Huang, a senior Blackstone managing director....
...As the US philanthropist J Paul Getty once put it: “After acquiring a large number of examples of fine art, one develops conscience pangs about keeping them to oneself.”...
...The price tag was $3,000 – a relatively modest sum for the heir to the family firm of Joannou & Paraskevaides (J&P), the Greek-Cypriot construction group....
...The hyper-honed puppies of Jeff Koons and the joke-laden medicine cabinets of Damien Hirst are the direct successors of LA’s pop culture pioneers. The LA story was never an unequivocally sunny one....
...But the fervour once displayed by the Hearst family, J. Paul Getty and others has been overtaken by Chinese and Middle Eastern buyers determined to build world-class collections at any price....
...Pinault laughs, adding, “ He is terriblement efficace, j’aime bien cet homme! He has the energy, the regard, the intelligence.”...
...Glenn Brown’s “The Pornography of Death”, Jeff Koons’ idiotic outsize dot-covered canvas “Couple (Dots) Landscape”, Carsten Holler’s resin-styrofoam “Giant Triple Mushroom”, all from 2009-10, are among many...
...On offer will be everything from a pair of Gillows breakfront cabinets (M & J Duncan, £35,000), a mid-16th-century drawing of a plump cupid perched on an extravagant urn (Joanna Booth, £5,500) to more contemporary...
...Picasso’s “Femmes d’Algiers J” sold for $18.6m, including the buyer’s premium....
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