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...Since the 1940s, they have worked with celebrated artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Ana Mendieta and Cy Twombly....
...patrick.jenkins@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Media and policymakers must up their game on private equity / From Peter Morris, London N5, UK...
...The collages reflect a familiarity with prehistoric cave art, Native American petroglyphs, Surrealism, Paul Klee and Baron’s local contemporary, Robert Rauschenberg....
...Michael Mann, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, achieved a degree of fame in the late 1990s for his “hockey stick” graph predicting a sharp rise in global temperatures....
...Christie’s top lot was Cy Twombly’s 2004 “Untitled (Bacchus 1st Version II)”, which went for $17mn ($20mn with fees), against an $18mn-$25mn estimate....
...£311,200, while Robert Ryman’s impasto “Gate” (1995), bought for $6.2mn in 2014, sold for the equivalent of $3.1mn at Sotheby’s this time around....
...Nightingale, the FT Undercover Economist’s first children’s book introduces younger readers (suitable for ages nine to 13) to the fundamentals of data and critical thinking, with illustrations by Ollie Mann...
...The Green vice-chancellor, Robert Habeck, said Söder’s decision was “unfortunately not a good one”....
...August 8 to 25; further information and tickets here September Performance ‘Topdog/Underdog’, Southbank Theatre Suzan-Lori Parks’ prizewinning tragicomedy, starring Damon Manns and Ras-Samuel as impoverished...
...This will be followed by an exhibition of late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe....
...Robert Habeck arrived in Bayreuth, a small Bavarian town about four hours’ drive from Berlin, in an elegant slate grey suit and a white shirt open at the collar....
...Former prosecutors, meanwhile, stand in awe of a case they say is magnitudes greater than any brought by the legendary Robert Morgenthau....
...This month it signed two top players, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha, spending nearly €100mn in transfer fees. That does not include player wages. The deals appear to mark a reversal in fortune....
...Beth Kühnel Mann, a research executive at YouGov, said Spare was likely to further reduce the couple’s popularity in the UK....
...As well as Herbie Hancock, Buddy Guy, George Benson and Thundercat, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and country singer Alison Krauss reunite for their Grammy-winning duo....
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...The auction included other works by Warhol as well as those of Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Robert Ryman....
...In fiction, I loved The Magician, Colm Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of the great German novelist Thomas Mann and arguably his best book yet....
...“It was harder to keep loyalty within the family,” wrote Murdoch Mann, “than it was to keep love or money.”...
...What draws him to Cy Twombly’s work, for instance?...
...“He was a bull in a china shop,” Robert Dall, Ranieri’s boss at Salomon for a time, told The New York Times in 2013. But what made Ranieri’s name was not his persona....
...The auction included other works by Warhol as well as by Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Francesco Clemente and Robert Ryman....
...“He wanted to collect artists ‘of our time’ but not emerging artists,” and carried a list of targets by Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston and Frank Stella....
...Last month Barcelona signed Brazilian winger Raphinha from Leeds and Polish striker Robert Lewandowski from Bayern Munich for a total of about €100mn....
...As specialists worked phones to draw bids from collectors in 35 countries, pride of place went not to established artists such as Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly and Damien Hirst, but to sought-after young women...
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