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...Dealer Nick Maclean says that bidding at Christie’s on Francis Bacon’s “Landscape near Malabata, Tangier” (1963) — which went to adviser Francis Outred for a within-estimate £16.8mn (£19.6mn with fees) —...
...Francis Bacon Triptych, $? per share Not everyone can afford to own a masterpiece. So how about not owning one?...
...Francis deSouza, who departed Illumina unceremoniously as chief executive, will not stand for re-election. Hargreaves Lansdown has appointed Alison Platt as board chair....
...A postwar highlight is Henry Moore and Francis Bacon battling sensibilities of societal healing against lonely existential anguish....
...Miro; one artwork sold for more than seven times its earlier estimate. 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale at Phillips takes place on 30 June Bacon’s study of Lucian FreudSotheby’s, London Francis...
...The exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders opened in February at Tate Modern in London; less than a week later, at Sotheby’s in London, René Magritte’s 1961 painting “L’empire des lumières” sold for £59.4mn...
...In Paris, despite a technical glitch during bidding, René Magritte’s “La Vengeance” (1936) sold from the collection of the late advertising magnate Francis Gross for well above its €6m-€10m estimate for...
...Meanwhile in Europe, the French gallerist Denise René (1913-2012) was one of the foremost promoters of abstract art, Op-art and kinetic art....
...Two of its four board members and its president, the Swiss-born lawyer René Brülhart, resigned....
...The Vatican said on Monday that René Brülhart, a 47-year-old Swiss lawyer who heads the Financial Information Authority (AIF), would step down after completing his term in charge, adding that Pope Francis...
...Highlights include Francis Newton Souza’s “Untitled” (1958), depicting three nude figures (estimated at £600,000-£800,000), and a rare Amrita Sher-Gil, “Trees”, (estimated at £500,000-£700,000)....
...Gimpel Fils, a dealership now in its fourth generation, was founded in London by the two sons of the French dealer René Gimpel, who sent his art to the UK before the war and was killed in a concentration...
...The opening lot, Egon’s Schiele’s enticing (but not too racy) watercolour, “Liegender Mädchenakt” (1909), sold for more than three times its high estimate at £1.1m (£1.3m with fees), while a Francis Picabia...
...And Francis Ford Coppola?...
...But Francis Simisim, founder of enterprise solutions start-up Social Light, said conglomerates see start-ups as traditional small enterprises and are seeking immediate returns....
...Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern auction on November 13 was also below estimate ($40.5m hammer; est $53.7m-$77.2m), though it recorded the highest price that the auction house has made at a day sale, for René...
...René Magritte remained defiantly suburban at home while crazily inventive at work....
...The office of René Bruelhart, the Vatican’s chief anti-money laundering cop, is in an ochre building within the Vatican walls and overlooking a quiet park near St Peter’s Basilica....
...Sir Chris Patten, the former governor of the BBC Trust, Peter Sutherland, former attorney-general of Ireland and ex-chairman of Goldman Sachs International and Rene Bruelhart, a top anti-money laundering...
...Previously the most expensive work sold at auction was Francis Bacon’s 1969 triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, which sold for $142.4m at Christie’s in November 2013....
...The Centre Pompidou Málaga will be located inside El Cubo, a glass cube on the harbourside, and will feature works by Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, Constantin Brancusi and, of course, Picasso...
...“But it’s the discrimination that feeds communautarism,” counters Jean-René Le Cerf, a senator who co-wrote a report on discrimination in France....
...Rene Bruelhart, the Swiss lawyer who heads the AIF, was on Thursday attending a plenary meeting in Peru of the international Egmont Group that brings together financial intelligence units fighting money...
...But Pope Francis in a sparsely worded statement in April indicated that the bank would stay open albeit with reduced functions....
...The evening concluded with a delightfully bizarre sighting: Jacobsson’s reconstruction of Relâche, the “ballet instantanéiste” that Francis Picabia and Erik Satie fashioned for the Ballets suédois in 1924...
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