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...The best book I’ve read in the past year is a biography of Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder and former chairman of Luxottica, the great Italian eyewear brand....
...It is also worth wondering whether things are getting worse, as prices rise to stratospheric levels (almost half a billion dollars in the case of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” when it was auctioned...
...Only a handful of artists have sold at auction for more than $150m, including a Leonardo da Vinci, a Pablo Picasso and now two pieces from Modigliani....
...The Rockefeller sale comes six months after Christie’s sold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi portrait of Christ for $450m, and starts an auction season where rival Sotheby’s is offering a Modigliani nude...
...Modigliani, Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci are the only three artists whose works have sold for more than $150m at auction....
...Expected big hitters were Claude Monet’s “La Gare Saint-Lazare, vue extérieure” (1877, est £22m-£28m) and Pablo Picasso’s “Femme dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar)” (1942, est £18m-£25m)....
...Phillips, increasingly a force in the 20th-century field, has fine drawings by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse from music publisher Julian J Aberbach and his wife Anne Marie....
...It looked the ultimate case of irrational exuberance, putting hedge fund manager Steven Cohen’s $155m purchase in 2013 of Pablo Picasso’s “Le Rêve” among the also-rans....
...One work did sell for nine — Pablo Picasso’s rather uncomfortable 1905 portrait of a naked young girl holding flowers sold to little fanfare for $102m ($115m with fees)....
...“Obviously the Leonardo sold but there were weaker spots that perhaps went unnoticed in all the noise.”...
...Marcelo Leonardo, lawyer for the pair, says they are innocent and all the cited financial transactions were “legal and normal”. Paz and his sister remain free while appealing their convictions....
...Pablo Zuniac, analyst at Susquehanna International Group, says it is clear “Ferrero has become more aggressive in the M&A game”....
...Whoopi Goldberg served as master of ceremonies, while Naomi Campbell and Leonardo DiCaprio were among the A-list guests....
...Free port mogul Yves Bouvier was able to amass a jaw-dropping group — from a Leonardo to a long-lost Blue Period Picasso — from such sources when he was buying for the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev...
...The powers that be know there’s nothing like the offer of an evening out sipping cocktails with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kevin Spacey at the Piano Bar to get you to abandon all your high falutin’ values about...
...I can think of only a handful of other artists — Leonardo, Daumier, Klee, Dalí, Koons — whose work twinkles with the same good cheer, and none with such an extensive comic arsenal....
...Gowned as if by Leonardo, Abramovic looks like the Blessed Virgin Marina....
...Quesadillas , by Juan Pablo Villalobos translated by Rosalind Harvey, And Other Stories, RRP£10/FSG Originals, RRP$13 In a bold follow-up to Down the Rabbit Hole , Mexico’s Villalobos tells the riotous...
...At one point they even suspected Pablo Picasso. Only one person was ever arrested for the crime in France: the poet Guillaume Apollinaire....
...When in October 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average moved more than 10 per cent on two days, economists Paul De Grauwe, Leonardo Iania and Pablo Rovira Kaltwasser used a normal distribution to estimate...
...In the summer of 1906, Pablo Picasso retreated from Paris to a village in the Spanish Pyrenees....
...In assembling an impressive body of other artists’ work, Hirst joins an elite group - led by Pablo Picasso....
...The humanity and individuality Velazquez brings to his buffoons and dwarves, the quirky modern perspective for the portrait of jester “Pablo de Valladolid”, is a highlight of this show....
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