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...The auction house was absolved of any wrongdoing in having assisted Bouvier to buy the works and in providing him with valuations....
...The plaintiffs alleged that Sotheby’s had “aided and abetted” the art broker Yves Bouvier to overcharge for 15 works of art, for which Rybolovlev paid more than $1bn....
...At the time he left to run Gradiva, a high-end gallery financed by “freeport king” Yves Bouvier and housed in a splendid building refitted by top decorator François-Joseph Graf....
...Laurent Bouvier, another Kartesia managing partner, says: “You have 6,000 banks in Europe, and you have 2,000 in Germany. Will that remain? No.”...
...Astonishingly clever and idiosyncratic, as ever Thomson pulls no punches: “the only honourable reality is that of pretending . . . ” Antonia Quirke Art Paul Gauguin, edited by Raphaël Bouvier and Martin...
...The household, which includes the stern family grandfather, “Major” Bouvier, Big Edie’s piano-playing friend, Gould, and the very young sisters Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier, is aflutter....
...In many respects, Eugene Joseph McCarthy, born in Watkins, Minnesota, on March 29 1916, the son of a livestock trader, was a pure Prairie populist....
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