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...His numerous books include a biography of Bacon (Anatomy of an Enigma), and the memoirs Francis Bacon in the Blood and The Existential Englishman (which recalled his own time in France from the mid-1960s...
...From Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin to Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio, the A-list has dined here....
...The 20th century also homed in on the figure’s androgyny — Marlene Dietrich in Blue Boy costume in 1927; the 1970s gay journal Blueboy Magazine....
...Cross Marlene Dietrich with Francis Bacon, add a touch of Miss Marple and you get an idea of the captivating, gifted yet rather cosy personality that is Maggi Hambling....
...– spread across showrooms in West Hollywood and Atlanta, as well as in their own Pimlico Road space – Fisher’s favourite is a c1777-1791 neoclassical marble chimneypiece carved by British sculptor John Bacon...
...Talking its own language of sewing and cutting, junk and textiles, but evoking numerous allusions to the western canon — Francis Bacon’s seeping death-shadows, Georgia O’Keeffe’s bleached skulls — Hlobo’...
...Last year, Tate’s temporary exhibition spaces were entirely given over to female solo shows as Marlene Dumas, Sonia Delaunay, Agnes Martin and Barbara Hepworth went on display....
...Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, Tate Modern, London At her best, the South African artist creates riveting close-up photo-based images in dirty colours where the personal and political, painterly and...
...Last year Marlborough turned up with 10 Francis Bacon paintings, of which a particularly covetable work — a bullfighting scene — was not for sale....
...I can’t complain, I can be proud that I am one of the few women — Marlene Dumas, Jenny Saville, Cindy Sherman, Lisa Yuskavage, Elizabeth Peyton — commanding high prices.”...
...laying out battle lines in 2000, when its inaugural hang controversially abandoned chronology for a thematic presentation: Monet alongside Richard Long, Matisse’s mighty bronzes of women’s backs facing Marlene...
...Right to Rise’s top donors include Miguel “Mike” Fernandez, the billionaire Cuban American private equity mogul; Louis Bacon, the hedge fund pioneer behind Moore Capital; William Oberndorf, the founder of...
...The most popular lunchtime dish is the McCarthy Salad, a mix of beets, chicken, eggs, tomatoes, cheese, bacon and avocado....
...Painter Marlene Dumas has eyes for Richard Dadd’s “The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke” (“layered, intense, intricate, complicated, decorative, elegant and mean”)....
...And Christie’s also scored with Bacon’s menacing “Study for a Portrait” (1953), which sold, probably to a Russian, for almost £18m, above its £11m estimate....
...Marlene Dumas, for example, whose spectral, bleached-out Luc Tuymans-like portraits of women and children have made her the current feminist darling of the auction houses and of the Saatchi Gallery, is an...
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