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...That often appeals to those who want to ensure privacy, given that sales are famed for being triggered by the “three Ds”: death, divorce and debt....
...Was the world crying out for a bawdy comedy set in a Swiss alpine hotel starring Mickey Rourke, John Cleese and Fanny Ardant? No? but it’s directed by Roman Polanski....
...You just spent 18 months finding John Doe to fill that job gap; you’re not going to rush to fire him in this downturn....
...The host’s title, president of the Russian Academy of Arts, seemed to make him a natural acquaintance for a collector such as Black. But it was misleading....
...We speak to the dealers, artists and collectors making it happen. Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo and Emily Goldberg...
...Sri Lanka debt crisis: The country may have sealed a $3bn bailout from the IMF, but many remain sceptical about its path to recovery....
...It took decades for “Omai” to face a similar squeeze, but in 2001, the Howard family offered the portrait for sale to Tate to clear inheritance tax debts....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...It doesn’t seem like full details were required, as some people signed on with pseudonyms (“John Doe” etc)....
...“The Nazis killed her and her memory,” says Simmons of the struggle to find out anything about a woman who turned out to have been an avid art collector....
...A debt collector knocks at his front door demanding nearly $160bn. That’s the stuff bad dreams are made of, but the other horrifying detail is that this debt collector is not human....
...And I think-- I don't know whether John Kerry, he was competing with you for the number of air miles, or who had more air miles, you or John Kerry. But you had a lot of air miles....
...MoMA restages one of these matchups — Jasper Johns vs David Hammons — which hums with subtle and splendid affinities. Bryant set herself a task that mixed politics with pragmatism....
...When the CFO was issued in May, those funds held stakes in 982 companies, including UK defence group Cobham, the Blackstone-owned casino operator Cirsa, the vet business IVC Evidensia and the debt collector...
...He is currently working on a set of rooms at John Vanbrugh’s Castle Howard, in Yorkshire....
...He has facilitated Basquiat sales and one particularly memorable deal for his client, tennis player John McEnroe....
...Art The world still cannot get enough of Andy Warhol, the pop artist who was ahead of his time in producing multiple prints for elite collectors. John Gapper explores why....
...Fast forward to more recent times and the manor was bought in the late 1950s by the American oil baron John Paul Getty, who sold it to the art collector Stanley J....
...“There will be some sort of economic correction as there is a lot of debt to pay down,” says Ben Clark, chief executive of advisory business Gurr Johns....
...In that sense, cyber experts are right to describe ransomware groups as “technical debt collectors”....
...In Solomon, Goldman has a methodical asset collector who projects a contradictory social front....
...We're like stamp collectors. Most people don't pay that much attention to politics until the closing stretches of a campaign. And this happened in the closing stretch....
...Property group St Modwen, infrastructure investor John Laing, power supplier Aggreko, car breakdown service AA and debt collector Arrow Global are among the other UK companies to have recently received bids...
...Previous owners include John du Pont, heir to the DuPont chemical fortune....
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