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...Duncan Phillips wrote of the group he purchased — “Orange, Red on Red”, “Ochre, Red on Red”, “Green and Tangerine on Red” are here — that they evoke “some sense of well being suddenly shadowed by a cloud...
...Several longer-serving Tories rejected cabinet jobs, including former party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who turned down the post of leader of the House of Commons, and ex-health secretary Sajid Javid,...
...For collector Duncan Phillips, 1920s Braques were incomparable: “Cubism finally justified itself by producing works of art at once architectural and lyrical.”...
...A century later, when Duncan Phillips bought “Farmhouse”, the freer, looser Constable was the one he claimed as “the founder of modern landscape . . ....
...Jackie KempEdinburgh, UK Letter in response to this letter: Why older Scots should not vote for their future / From David C Speedie, Charlottesville, VA, US...
...Jackie Baillie, a Labour member of the committee, said Sturgeon’s account and those of Salmond and Hamilton could not be reconciled....
...Letters in response to this column: A courageous PM would agree to a Scotland vote / From Carol Duncan, Edinburgh, UK A view from first nation subjugated by the English / From Iestyn Thomas, Cardiff, UK...
...celebrates Sorolla’s bob-haired teenage daughter in a figure-hugging Delphos gown of tightly pleated silk, its vertical striations shimmering; the design had just been patented by Mariano Fortuny, and Isadora Duncan...
...The art work is mostly traditional — a couple of Duncan Grants there, a Winston Churchill watercolour here — with a smattering of modernity; a Damien Hirst abstract of vaguely pharmacological dots, the famous...
...Beaton’s languorous images of gay socialite Stephen Tennant; Charles Buchel’s portrait of lesbian novelist “Radclyffe Hall” dressed as a man; Henry Scott Tuke’s breezy 1920s depictions of naked swimmers and Duncan...
...Additional reporting by Jackie Cai...
...Sargent raved — in green silk and blue tinsel scintillates as Lady Macbeth, placing Duncan’s crown on her own head....
...“I suppose, for us, it’s that every now and again you get a wonderful name that comes along — the Windsor sale that we had, the Jackie Kennedy sale we had — and this is like that....
...places her literary exploration of a new fragmented, shifting, unfixed portraiture in the context of the fluid, subjective depictions attempted by painters in her circle: her sister Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan...
...This superb retrospective of John Duncan Fergusson is the first solo exhibition in an English museum of any Scottish colourist, and it brings a fresh, lively voice to the still contested history of British...
...There are lovely things here but this is an indigestible display, weighted by academic concerns – Clark’s obsession with copies yields such ghastly results as Duncan Grant’s clumsy still life “After Zurbarán...
...Martin Wolf Business Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, by Duncan Clark, Ecco, RRP£18.99/$27.99 If Alibaba, the sprawling online retailer, is one of China’s most interesting companies, then Jack Ma...
...Even though she continued to collect right up till the end – she took a late fancy to the vivid palettes of the Scottish colourists, such as John Duncan Fergusson – Bunny Mellon did reach an acquisitive...
...To Duncan Phillips, who bought “La Table ronde” (loaned here), Braque, “no longer restrained from rich sensuous painting”, now had “the best style in Europe and … cubism finally justified itself by producing...
...Above all, says Jackie Stubbs, co-landlady with her mother Margaret, everybody talks to each other. “People who come in here as a stranger go away as a friend.”...
...But Mr Duncan Smith particularly drew attention to immigrants from the EU. I don’t know why....
...It concludes next year with a focus on John Duncan Fergusson, allowing the distinctive strengths of each of the quartet to be appreciated for the first time....
...exhibition, moving from Tate Britain to open in Edinburgh today as a highlight of the city’s visual arts festival, is not frightened of the absurdity of placing Picasso against such weaker, milder artists as Duncan...
...The book is sincere and deeply honouring of Hamilton’s father as well as dead greats such as Lawton, Shankly, Jackie Milburn, Duncan Edwards and Bobby Moore, men who lived alongside, and travelled to games...
...Other film and video, much favoured Tate media, make the shortlist – one by Brazilian Tamar Gumaraes at Galeria Fortes Vilac, and Duncan Campbell’s absurdist abstract film about Sigmar Polke, at Hotel....
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