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...Elsewhere in London, James Richards has left Daniel Katz, where he was gallery manager and head of research, and joined Charles Ede as a director this week....
...“The current structure is opaque and confusing and increased clarity should attract more people to this market,” says Charles Stewart, Sotheby’s CEO....
...Estimates range from £100-£150 for cartoons drawn by Roy Ullyett for the Daily Express in 1974 to £100,000-£150,000 for Charles Cundall’s painting of a 1926 FA Cup match between amateur team The Corinthians...
...Among those on view will be the Trinidadian painter Sarah Knights, who was recently chosen to paint a portrait of King Charles III for the cover of Tatler magazine....
...She inherited the work from her parents, Charles Shipman and Joan Whitney Payson, the latter an heiress and founder-owner of the New York Mets baseball team....
...Their wide-ranging donations to more than 40 charitable programmes around the world include the UK’s Royal Drawing School, and Manetti Shrem says she counts King Charles III among her friends....
...Also in London, the specialists Rudy Capildeo and Tim Maxwell have been brought in from Charles Russell Speechlys to City law firm Wedlake Bell to lead a dedicated art and luxury practice....
...London’s Saatchi Yates, a gallery for contemporary art founded by Charles Saatchi’s daughter Phoebe and her husband Arthur Yates in 2020, is branching out into Old Masters....
...Among his thousands of books are first editions by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens — a three-volume Great Expectations is offered for £3,000-£5,000 (1861, Chapman and Hall)....
...The news came as a surprise to many outside of the business, though an email to staff from Charles Stewart, Sotheby’s chief executive, says that the decision was “planned for some time”....
...It tells the story of the 18th-century “Irish giant”, Charles Byrne....
...representatives of French museums stood up to exercise the right, including the Château de Versailles, which bought a pair of Louis XIV marquetry pedestals originally delivered to their palace in 1684 by André-Charles...
...Art experts were quick to notice Canaletto’s 1744 view of Venice as the backdrop to the accession of the UK’s new monarch, King Charles III, in London’s St James’s Palace last weekend....
...There was strong British interest but also considerable international bidding, says Charles Cator, deputy chair of Christie’s International....
...The portrait, which shows Diana looking introspective two years after her official separation from Prince Charles, sold from Shanks’ collection earlier this year for $201,600, 10 times its auction estimate...
...Other Frieze highlights include Charles Gaines, who has five works from his large-scale Numbers and Trees series at Hauser & Wirth ($550,000 each)....
...When Wigram approached Henderson about joining The Three Horseshoes, she was looking for a new project; her catering firm Arnold & Henderson, which she runs with Melanie Arnold and whose clients include...
...And Dakota Johnson is not only the daughter of former couple Melanie Griffiths and Don Johnson, but her grandmother was Tippi Hedren, too?! Er, yeah....
...At Nada New York, Charles Moffett, who recently opened a new gallery in Tribeca, reported a sellout booth of eight new paintings by Julia Jo for $12,000 each, including one to the ICA Miami museum....
...The online supermarket, jointly owned by Ocado — which reports numbers on Tuesday — and Marks and Spencer, parted company with chief executive Melanie Smith and warned on profits several times....
...“We have become ambidextrous, able to push with both hands, or either, as necessary,” says Charles Stewart, chief executive of Sotheby’s. “There’s no need for a contingency plan any more.”...
...Visitors to the 1997 Sensation exhibition of Charles Saatchi’s collection might recall “Dead Dad” and, notes Polly Robinson Gaer, executive director at the gallery: “It can now be unveiled to a new generation...
...Sales here ranged from a Persian bronze blade from c1200-1000BC (£3,800, Charles Ede) to an assembled cloth work by Spiller + Cameron made this year (£6,230, Vigo)....
...In the play, Charlotte is invited to dinner by a wealthy white Manhattan couple, Charles and Virginia, who hope to become her patrons....
...Innovations for this month’s Tefaf Online include a joint appearance by the London antiquities specialist Charles Ede and New York contemporary gallerist Sean Kelly on The Grand Tourist, an art-world podcast...
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