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...As ever, though, a shaft of Jakober humour lightens the mood: in the middle of the floor stands an enormously oversized, almost Koons-like baby’s dummy, a sculpture in wood by the couple....
...Except once, when he bought a Jeff Koons Dom Pérignon Balloon Venus champagne bottle for £15,000 – another of the same edition sold recently for more than £50,000 at a Phillips auction....
...The sale handily eclipsed the previous auction record held by a living artist, which was set by the American Jeff Koons when his “Balloon Dog (Orange)” sold for $58.4m at Christie’s in 2013....
...lissongallery.com Photographs: Alastair Levy; Jack Hems...
...The first work he bought was a video by Jack Strange, who was his student at the Slade School of Fine Art. He bought the work for £500; Strange now sells for around £5,000 on the primary market....
...They curled around her hands like Jack’s beanstalk. Her subjects looked at her nails and never her face, which was not unlike Quentin Massys’ “Ugly Duchess”....
...to their other home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, where Jack is enrolled in school....
...“Investors should not infer that low implied volatility suggests that risk has disappeared,” says Jack Ablin, chief investment officer of BMO Private Bank....
...The New York dealer Jack Shainman represents Yiadom-Boakye as well as four other artists in the show, including Kerry James Marshall....
...While some currency weakness helps exports, too much can jack up inflation and foster broader instability....
...There are now numerous galleries of African art in London; established ones are October Gallery and Jack Bell, with Tiwani Contemporary and the Gallery of African Art newer arrivals....
...We are looking at a “Jack the Dripper” Pollock; at Alex Katz’s blaze of “The Red Smile”; at George Bellows’ merciless punching....
...Huston Spike Lee, Jeff Koons....
...A Jeff Koons egg sold as part of the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt for $900,000 – bids began at $500 – smashed Paddle8’s previous record of $260,000....
...The Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain (regional contemporary art funds, or Frac) were initiated by culture minister Jack Lang in 1982 as part of a decentralisation plan, the aim being to present the artists...
...Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and Bianca Jagger had it; Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, and Yoko Ono did not....
...In October the Scottish painter Jack Vettriano was reported to have refused to paint a certain golfer on the grounds that “I don’t do men with breasts”. Who was the slighted sportsman? 38....
...That condemns me to hang a Jack Vettriano print over my suburban mantelpiece. But I admire Mr Hirst’s enterprise....
...Jeff Koons, “Hanging Heart” 17. Damien Hirst claimed to have sold “For the Love of God” in August 18. Jimi Hendrix 19. Carlos Acosta, the Arabesque 20....
...The result is a show, ranging from sculpture to paintings and installations, by more than 30 artists including Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Shirin Neshat, Sarah Sze, Eric Fischl and...
...Hauser & Wirth had a striking Paul McCarthy, “Jack”, a hideous head with a pitted nose the size and shape of a colossal root vegetable....
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