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...The Christie’s work has an unusual ownership structure. In 1986, two-thirds of the painting was gifted to the Nelson-Atkins museum in Kansas City by local collectors Joseph and Ethel Atha....
...Indeed, Sotheby’s rival Christie’s is keen for more attention to be paid to the activity because it wants to keep on diversifying into what Adrien Meyer, Christie’s global head of private sales, calls “in...
...They concluded that the face of Joseph in the artist’s work “Madonna della rosa”, housed at the Prado in Madrid, may not be by the Renaissance artist....
...The Ghanaian artist and social entrepreneur Joseph Awuah-Darko has selected more than 30 works from the Olym collection, the private holdings of contemporary African art founded by two anonymous brothers...
...Most of the works come from the Château de Ferrières, east of Paris, designed by Joseph Paxton for Baron James Mayer de Rothschild — the son of the dynasty’s founder — and his wife (and niece) Betty in 1862...
...Their new division, called Saatchi Yates Masters, will be run by Joseph Friedman, a former Sotheby’s senior director and an expert of more than 30 years experience....
...Perhaps the last true avant-garde movement of the 20th century” is how Christie’s describes CoBrA – the artist group founded in 1948....
...Christie’s is set to have sold at least $7.1bn of art, up from $5.4bn....
...The identities of unsigned works of art are easily lost, as the sales history of a Christie’s rediscovery this January also bears witness....
...Sales at Christie’s Hong Kong spring auction totalled HK$3.4bn....
...Experts say it likely travelled across the Atlantic with a Spanish treasure fleet before passing down an English family until 1973, when it sold at Christie’s for £1,785....
...Johnson’s dissenting politics lent a radical edge to the works he handled, and the articles in the Analytical Review, the journal he co-founded with Thomas Christie....
...Cook’s Tahiti voyage was a joint expedition of the Navy and Royal Society in London, carrying scientists such as Joseph Banks and the Swedish botanist Daniel Solander....
...We did it together with the British architect Philip Joseph, who is amazing with texture, colour and scale, and has this special sensibility for creating a countryside home that’s also modern....
...“Artists such as Sejiro Avoseh and Fidelis Joseph are paving the way. “Recently an African-American collector told me he was looking for art that didn’t feel too close to home....
...Online auction, 18 January to 1 February; christies.com Gems from a François-Joseph Graf interior on Lake Geneva One of François-Joseph Graf’s first projects after launching his eponymous interior-design...
...And finally The remarkable collection of early Thomas Chippendale furniture was to be the centrepiece of an auction at Christie’s of the contents of Dumfries House in Ayrshire in July 2007....
...Its membership has maintained its lustre over the years, since hosting Virginia Woolf (whose father opened the Reading Room here), Joseph Conrad, Agatha Christie, EM Forster, Winston Churchill and Bram Stoker...
...and Anna X from Joseph Charlton....
...Earlier in the week, Christie’s made $275m from its ninth and 10th such sales....
...Joseph Awuah-Darko, an art collector, philanthropist and one-time successful musician (stage name Okuntakinte), has turned his energies to helping visual artists in Africa....
...The writer’s genre-switch has been triumphant, as Island Reich (Michael Joseph, £14.99) proves....
...Christie’s christies.com. David Griffith Antiques davidgriffithantiques.com. Fleeting Fox Antiques fleetingfoxantiques.com. Joseph Berry Interiors josephberryinteriors.co.uk. Sotheby’s sothebys.com....
...Life Meets Art: Inside the Homes of the World’s Most Creative People (£39.95, Phaidon) What did/do the homes of Agatha Christie, Henry Moore or Diane von Furstenberg look like?...
...urban sprawl: crowded Victorian terraces give way to gracious suburban villas and the sort of art deco apartment buildings that one can imagine in television adaptations of Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie...
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