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...Top lot of the sale — and the last conducted by Christie’s star auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen — was St Jerome (c1653), which sold for £1.25mn (£1.6mn with fees, est £500,000-£700,000)....
...Other principals include Richard Bernstein, Aaron Blake and Will Liverman. ★★★★☆ To December 7, metopera.org...
...Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art Sotheby’s London, July 11 Drawings by Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Blake are among the standouts, including Frederic Leighton...
...Organised with the help of friends and co-directors Jerome Toole and Joey Valiunas and mainly publicised through word of mouth, it sold 150 tickets and was held on a site in Reading, with a permit to sell...
...In the late summer sun, it resembles William Blake’s “bar of gold”....
...This tension between religious fervour and studied design is dramatised in the artist’s obsession with the subject of St Jerome....
...Pistorius’s battle in the 100m (T44 category) with Britain’s Jonnie Peacock and the Americans Jerome Singleton and Blake Leeper is billed as one of the most anticipated events of the games....
...Happily, Jerome Kern’s irresistible tunes are well served by some good voices, most notably Angela Kerrison’s bell-like Julie and Blake Fischer’s debonair Gaylord....
...The first pic: Jerome Kerviel 5. Why Draaisma is saying Buy, Buy, Buy, Buy 6. Losing control 7. SocGen’s fraud trader named 8. The Fed’s run out of money 9....
...Mr Francois left SocGen this year in the wake of the losses caused by the rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel....
...In the finest of these works, “St Jerome Reading” from the Royal Collection, the bald and bearded saint peers myopically through one lens of his spectacles at a letter....
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