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...When Beauford Delaney got there in 1953, he was known for realistic, Harlem Renaissance-style portraits of WEB Du Bois, Duke Ellington and, most essentially, James Baldwin....
...He has been replaced by Thierry Léger, former chief underwriting officer at rival Swiss Re. Scor’s shares were down more than 5 per cent in early trading on Friday....
...Patrick Leger’s art, all inky brushwork and muted hues, seems to have been lifted straight from the pages of contemporary magazines and children’s books, and is as fiendishly charming as Wyndham’s cautionary...
...James Murdoch has confirmed plans to become an anchor investor in Switzerland’s MCH Group, owner of the Art Basel fair and majority owner of London’s Masterpiece....
...He was James Joyce, working at the time on the episodes called Sirens and Circe in his groundbreaking novel, Ulysses. This Circe was suitably exotic, the Baroness St Leger, no less....
...Also included is Kerry James Marshall’s “Untitled (Blanket Couple)” (2014), bought with the Oslo museum in mind for $4.3m at a Phillips auction last year....
...James ThorntonThe lawyer defending Mother Earth A member of the bars of New York, California and the Supreme Court of the United States, James Thornton began his career on Wall Street at the massive law...
...This is a mistake, as it only applies to works authenticated and authorised for sale, notes James Ratcliffe, ALR director of recoveries....
...With most having their primary home in Dublin, country estates are a ‘want’ not a ‘need’, ” says James Meagher of Knight Frank....
...Wanting to sign up the biggest names in modern art, Ms Rawnsley hired a light aircraft and flew to France, where within days she had persuaded Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse to take part....
...in the 1920s by crafting wire sculptures of recognisable forms, such as acrobats and circus animals, or three-dimensional wire portraits of individuals such as his artist friends Joan Miró and Fernand Léger...
...James Mackintosh, investment editor, examines what happened to those who sold in May and whether they should be buying back into equities as St Leger's day approaches. Markets appear to be in two minds....
...This centenary exhibition examines how geometric abstraction became a global language of social and political revolution, from Léger’s “Ballet Mécanique” to Dan Flavin’s fluorescent “Monument to V Tatlin...
...The St Leger’s day races, which mark the British moment to buy back in, are next week. Should investors stick with the adage?...
...For those who follow the old adage 'sell in May and go away, come back on St Leger day', James Mackintosh analyses whether it is time to return to equity markets...
...The St Leger Stakes are not being run until next week, but those who follow the “Sell in May” principle might be tempted to buy back into equities before the horse race that traditionally dictates the date...
...From the late 1940s, Paolozzi – inspired partly by encounters with Brâncusi, Braque, Léger and Giacometti during a two-year stay in Paris, partly by the images of plenty in visiting GIs’ magazines – produced...
...Followers of old stock market adages should themselves head to the races: Wednesday is the start of the St Leger’s meet in Doncaster, in the north of England....
...As St Leger's day approaches, James Mackintosh, investment editor, considers whether those who sold in May should be getting back into the market - or whether the US fiscal cliff means they face a winter...
...Works by other key modernists such as Kurt Schwitters, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Francis Picabia are on show in the foundation, all part of the collection Calder built up over his life....
...back on St Leger’s day”....
...In 2008, St Leger’s day came two days before Lehman failed, marking one of the worst moments to buy shares imaginable....
...James Mackintosh, investment editor, analyses the maxim's record and considers whether to heed it this year....
...“Sell in May and go away, come back on St Leger’s day” is the best-known piece of rhyming market wisdom. It is also one of the few with a decent track record, the FT’s James Mackintosh writes....
...A companion show, In the Realm of Colour, displays Expressionist and Cubist works on paper by the trio’s contemporaries: Kandinsky, Nolde, Dix, Picasso, Léger and others. Marc, Macke and Delaunay....
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