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...landscape painting “Cobb’s Barns, South Truro” (1930-33, estimate $8mn-$12mn), have been consigned for sale at Sotheby’s New York next month along with two pieces by John Marin and a painting by Maurice Prendergast...
...Shares in Cineworld surged by up to 15 per cent today as the world’s second-largest cinema chain reported huge rises in demand from movie goers for the latest James Bond flick and other blockbusters....
...One of Prendergast’s favourites is a study by James Barry of Edmund Burke, the 18th-century Irish statesman and political thinker whose statue stands outside the university’s main entrance....
...• Fidelity International has hired Hugh Prendergast as global head of product, a new role at the £239bn UK asset manager....
...“One of the things with Brexit we are all looking at is what is going to be the impact for any of our footprints,” says James Norris, managing director of Vanguard’s international operations....
...Viewed through a prism of scarlet flags, royal blue sky and snowy-white dresses, Maurice Prendergast’s Piazza San Marco (1898) becomes the exotic cousin of his native Boston....
...Additional reporting by Lara Prendergast in New Delhi...
...“Loud socks are becoming much more acceptable, although there’s always been the pink sock ‘City’ brigade,” says Prendergast....
...Prendergast stresses that the weather affects men’s propensity to wear colour. “In the UK, people like to wear dark clothes....
...James Traub’s The Best Intentions goes some way towards revealing the personality of this lifetime UN man....
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