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...Recent posts have included a painting, Two Owls, No. 1, 1959, by Francis Bacon, and images of models walking in their summer 2024 catwalk show....
...Our main courses and another round of Bloody Marys are promptly served....
...steel latticework doors, allowing glimpses of the Grand Canal flowing past, Cattelan’s pope here is a fragile, tragic figure, trapped in suffering, symbol of a life being swept away, closer to Francis Bacon...
...rises, markets predict the Fed has finished its tightening cycle and could start cutting rates as soon as July, as it shifts its focus from curbing high inflation to soothing a slowing economy, writes Mary...
...Gilbert Proesch, artist and half of Gilbert & George “English breakfast, bacon and eggs. I think it’s my favourite food.” Mary Celeste Beall, Blackberry Farm proprietor“A bath....
...If you grew, reared or produced anything more interesting, it had to be sold to rich people so you could afford enough groats and bacon fat to get through to spring....
...When he was egged during his run for governor of California in 2003, he masterfully quipped: “This guy owes me bacon now.”...
...Home to the heavenly but bearing “a whiff of the demonic”; both piously ascetic and intensely luxurious – the beguiling contradictions of the Vatican have fired the imaginations of everyone from Francis Bacon...
...It is not quite a Bloody Mary, nor a martini, but closer to a very happy marriage between the two....
...Crisp became close friends with the critic Mary Clarke when the publishers Adam and Charles Black brought them together to co-write Ballet: An Illustrated History (1973)....
...In London, the Royal Academy cracks out an important Francis Bacon retrospective for the start of the year while the newly reopened Courtauld Institute — whose revamp has been pretty much universally lauded...
...She spent the formative years of her career working with chefs such as Derry Clarke and Mary McEvoy at L’Ecrivain in the city....
...Francis Bacon, Bodley’s contemporary, described his library as “an ark to save learning from the deluge”....
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...“How could it be possible for just breakfast you have eggs, bacon, milk, butter, cheese, all of these things? We thought it was propaganda.”...
...Rebecca Rose, creative director of fragrance brand To The Fairest, and Nicholas Bacon, a vet, married in July, just after the first UK lockdown had been lifted, at St Mary the Virgin in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire...
...Landscape was not pertinent for major postwar artists, whose themes were existential, man’s relationship with himself (Giacometti, Bacon, Freud) or about society (Warhol, Gerhard Richter)....
...From Elizabeth I to the earls of Leicester and Essex, Walter Raleigh and Mary Sidney, if you were an aspirational Elizabethan, you had your portrait painted in miniature....
...to $15m) and a white-ground 1945 painting by Joan Miró (up to $18m) while Christie’s also fields a $300m-plus collection from the luxury travel tycoon Barney Ebsworth and a small, powerful 1969 Francis Bacon...
...I saw a photograph recently from the Queen Mary ocean liner that featured an eight-tier cake fashioned like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, alongside a vast platter of lobsters....
...Among some 50 works here is Birley’s 1951 portrait of Winston Churchill, bought by Andrew Lloyd Webber from the estate of Churchill’s daughter Mary Soames in 2014 for a steep £1.4m....
...Their pungent but beguiling smell of sizzling bacon invariably conjures up other ingredients that create a “full fry-up” that in itself is a patent....
...The final room brings together artists, from Walter Sickert to Francis Bacon, who were inspired by the curmudgeonly Parisian....
...In the 1960s The Rolling Stones and The Who were on pirate radio, Mary Quant started a miniskirt revolution and Soho was home to artists such as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon....
...In the early days, Moore Capital was largely just Mr Bacon taking outsized risks and generating outsized returns. In 1995, Mr Bacon brought in Elaine Crocker, an early investor, as president....
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