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...As Maclean notes: “the concept was utopian but the reality was less tranquil”. Maclean is the perfect biographer — self-effacing, non-judgmental, unobtrusive....
...Maclean and Philby died in Moscow in the 1980s. I asked Blake whether he wanted to speak Dutch or English....
...Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin are all here; so are Louis Anquetin (a night café scene recalled by Van Gogh in Arles), Van Gogh’s friend Emile Bernard and others, in juxtapositions demonstrating how...
...Craig Maclean, cycling. Benjamin Maher, show jumper. Robert McCracken, performance director, British Amateur Boxing Association. Ed McKeever, kayaker. Nigel Murray, boccia player....
...The highest price of $6.9m was paid for a Louis XVI ormolu-mounted commode with secretaire, and indeed much of the ornate French furniture did well....
...Setting the Scene: The Art and Evolution of Animation Layout, by Fraser MacLean, Chronicle Books, RRP£40, 272 pages Spoil yourself. MacLean’s introduction to animation techniques is lavishly laid out....
...US 16 Alexandre Dumas France 17 John Paul II Poland 18 Georges Simenon Belgium 19 Jack London US 20 Arthur Conan Doyle UK 21 Rene Goscinny France 22 Bible 23 Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russia 24 Robert Louis...
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