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...Among biographies to watch for are John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso Volume IV (Jonathan Cape, March), which takes us to the “minotaur years” of the 1930s, the Spanish civil war and surrealist poetry....
...Meanwhile in Europe, the French gallerist Denise René (1913-2012) was one of the foremost promoters of abstract art, Op-art and kinetic art....
...By contrast, the house Connell shares with his mother Lorraine, who works as Denise’s cleaner, is intimate and welcoming....
...HSBC Bank, which owns all the shares in M&S Bank, has replaced him with two directors from its main board: Peter Shawyer, a former partner with Deloitte, and Denise Holt, former British ambassador to Spain...
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