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...In a smashing 1934 self-portrait, Samuel Joseph Brown confronts viewers with a level gaze....
...If there is one man who knows about how to tailor a blouson, it’s Henri Zaks, proprietor of Seraphin in Paris....
...It delights others, such as the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has railed against its former neoliberal policies....
...David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, James Gorman of Morgan Stanley and Jane Fraser of Citigroup are among those expected to attend the November forum following Hong Kong’s decision to scrap its hotel quarantine...
...Nearby, his handblown glass Dark Vernus I chandelier sheds new light on two 19th-century bronze busts of a black man and woman by the French sculptor Charles-Henri Cordier....
...Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon, Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman and Citigroup’s Jane Fraser will attend a financial forum in Hong Kong designed to restore the city’s reputation as Asia’s top financial...
...On August 31, Sotheby’s will unveil the collections of the late Sir Joseph Hotung, who died last year at the age of 91....
...On Friday, the US and Canada levied sanctions on two members of the political elite — Joseph Lambert, the president of the Haitian senate, and former senator Youri Latortue....
...My highlights are Michel Garnier’s passionflower painting, created in Mauritius in 1801, and Henri Fantin-Latour’s portrait of a lily, from 1877....
...To protect the grain from rain, a wooden roof was added in 1783, which was later replaced after a fire by François-Joseph Bélanger’s iron version, a wonder of its age....
...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...
...One sculpture on the visitor route at Chatsworth, “Bust of an African Woman” by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (1851), depicts a formerly enslaved woman in bronze....
...In his writings, the wartime prime minister acknowledges the influence of Henri Matisse, who had also spent time in Morocco earlier in the 20th century....
...But it would be a “catalytic” moment this year, Joseph Scalzo, chief executive of the Simply Good Foods Company, told investors in the snacks company earlier this month....
...High-end brands like Joseph Altuzarra, La Perla, and Roland Mouret have joined since....
...Five years later, 32 per cent of casemaker Joseph Erard Holding was added to the portfolio, followed by a buyout of dial manufacturer Nateber in 2012, earning Hermès coveted manufacture status — meaning,...
...There was no sign of Gorman. Eventually they asked the hotel management to check his room. Gorman had died in the night....
...It also bought a share of movement maker Vaucher in 2006, acquired dial maker Nateber in 2012 and a year later took a majority stake in case manufacturer Joseph Erard....
...For Damian Gorman’s play Anything Can Happen, planned for September, the theatre will fill the empty seats with photographs and keepsakes....
...Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has named Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba as prime minister following months of wrangling with former head of state Joseph Kabila’s political party....
...Visiting this remote corner of Guyana was a highlight of a trip prompted by the 50th anniversary of the publication of Papillon, Henri Charrière’s autobiographical novel....
...The former include the serene cubed blocks of Modigliani (“Tête de femme”) and Brancusi (“Le Baiser”), and an elegant geometric stone “Tête” by forgotten Hungarian Joseph Csáky....
...The week belonged to British painter Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), best known for his Age of Enlightenment allegory “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” (1768), which hangs in London’s National...
...Leading Central Loire wines Domaine de Villargeau, Coteaux du Giennois 2017 £9.50 The Wine Society; 2016 £12.99 Majestic Henry Pellé, Menetou-Salon Les Bornes £14.50 Oddbins Joseph Mellot, Menetou-Salon...
...As French writer Henri Barbusse observed of Stalin in 1935: “He is the most famous and yet almost the least known man in the world.”...
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