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...“The debt that was run up during World War II was largely paid back within the generation of the people who fought the war,” Swagel said....
...Totals at Sotheby’s and Christie’s came in at the low end of expectations, already revised down after a number of withdrawals, while Phillips’ slim sale of £10.9mn (£13.7mn with fees) on March 7 didn’t quite...
...Onboard, True North II’s purpose becomes obvious....
...In 2022, The Arrival sold at Phillips auction house for £44,000, over an estimate of £22,000....
...But I’m most excited about Nakhla, the standalone boutique of the eponymous jewellery brand, situated at the feet of the iconic statue of Rameses II....
...As a soldier in the Royal Engineers, Laidley Nelson met Elizabeth II three times. The second time she recognised him. “She said, ‘Aren’t you that corporal?’ Her memory was fantastic....
...II” (1930) sold for $48mn ($51mn with fees, estimate $50mn). Mondrian’s previous auction high was a fee-inclusive $50.6mn....
...The following year, in November 1978, Schwartz was due to be in Rome to photograph the new pope, John Paul II....
...and contemporary art include a small Alberto Giacometti editioned bronze of his wife and model Annette, priced at €1.45mn (c1953-54, Kamel Mennour), Robert Motherwell’s France-appropriate “Je t’aime No II...
...The Bank Policy Institute said the stress tests were “much more severe than any post-World War II recession” while the Financial Services Forum said the results underscored “the strength and resiliency of...
...Youngsters who reached far beyond their presale estimates at Phillips included Anna Weyant, recently represented through her partner Larry Gagosian’s gallery; her “Buffet II” (2021), a contemporary take...
...one of the settling families of Jaipur, the “pink city” named after its terracotta-tinged walls and buildings, which was established in 1727 as the new capital of Rajasthan by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II...
...His rocket trip to stardom was fuelled by the commission for a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II for the cover of Tatler’s platinum jubilee issue....
...When the Grade II*-listed former flour mill, a guest house for 40 years, came up for sale, Natalie and Varian Bush jumped at the chance of buying it last year....
...Joe Miller is an FT correspondent in Frankfurt Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on Twitter or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram Letters in response to this article: Pius II deserves...
...But Williams’ recurring form, for example in “Tribal Mark II” and “Sun and Earth II”, is particular: a bonelike claw, an element in Warao Amerindian imagery that the artist knew from the Guyana rainforest...
...Sales from Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips are currently running at $10.8bn for the year to date, compared with $5.8bn for the same period last year, Bourron finds....
...Oba Ewuare II, the current king, has led efforts to recover the bronzes, including a request made during a visit from the British Museum in 2018....
...The maverick art collector, dealer, curator, writer — and sometimes artist — has a second sale from his personal collection that opens online at Sotheby’s this week (The Hoarder: Part II, December 10-17)...
...Its GPS coordinates were then turned into an 8,600-figure code printed onto a steel scroll, which was auctioned at Phillips for $185,000....
...project,” CBO director Phillip Swagel said in a statement....
...“Ask yourself,” he wrote on the self-styled manifesto that he posted online before the attack, “What would Pope Urban II do?”...
...I used both the Augmented Dickey-Fuller and the Phillips-Perron tests and found that all four relevant series contained unit roots....
...13 Dada and Surrealist works will go on sale at Christie’s on June 20 under the title The Landscape of a Mind: A Private Collector’s Surreal Vision, with highlights including “L’Extinction des espèces II...
...“This is the greatest vassalage since King John paid homage to Phillip II at Le Goulet in 1200,” Jacob Rees-Mogg fulminated. Blame the prime minister, blame Brussels. But reality is the actual culprit....
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