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...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...
...These include Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c1500), which Rybolovlev later auctioned for an all-time record of $450.3mn....
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...“During the coronavirus pandemic we need bank CEOs to be looking through their front windscreen rather than their rear-view mirror,” said Joseph Dickerson, an analyst at Jefferies....
...Traded over-the-counter via “pink sheet” listings à la Jordan Belfort — the convicted stock broker who wrote The Wolf of Wall Street (the 2013 movie version starred Leonardo DiCaprio, pictured below) — the...
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...The latter group had been persuaded by the dealer Joseph Duveen that art conferred social status....
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...Other highlights include Joseph Wright’s “An Academy in Lamplight”, estimated at between £2.5m and £3m....
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...Take, for instance, the Sheikh Lotfollah mosque in the Iranian town of Isfahan, whose clasping of the intimate and the infinite is a feat of world architecture, or Leonardo da Vinci’s essay in divine and...
...Oh, and by the way, it’s Joseph Wright of Derby, just like Leonardo da Vinci … John Forkin Derby, UK...
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...I have come to view Ben Elwes’s star piece for London Art Week: “Return From Fishing” (c1750-51) by the leading French landscape painter of the later 18th century, Claude Joseph Vernet....
...whether in describing the collapsed baroque façades of the city’s hammered buildings, or the softly cut woollen jackets of the film’s American protagonist, Holly Martins, who is so memorably played by Joseph...
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