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...The Barnes show begins a little tentatively, with a few obscure portraits and some informative reproductions....
...But the stock remains down on a high point of 394p in 2019 before the accounting scandal hit and the company’s founder, Lord Maurice Saatchi, resigned along with half of the board....
...Several of Crisp’s other contemporaries also became critics: among them Clive Barnes and John Percival....
...The Century 21 near Lincoln Center was previously a Barnes & Noble, the famed bookseller that was blamed for spurring the decline of the independent bookstore in the 1990s....
...He “planted Matisses among the bourgeoisie from the back room at Bernheim-Jeune as he might have planted bombs”, the painter Maurice Boudot-Lamotte remarked....
...“The threat to Barnes & Noble and Borders retail stores looks more and more real everyday,” he wrote....
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