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...But when you see Cruz and Giuliani dancing side by side in one of the film’s craziest sequences, you realise how much L’immensità is a celebratory mother-child duet....
...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...Ostin’s works were topped by René Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951), which sold for $36.5mn ($42.3mn with fees, est $35mn-$55mn) while a second painting by Magritte in his collection, from 1949,...
...UBS co-head of investment banking Ros L’Esperance will lead a new so-called executive client group of top dealmakers targeting high-profile clients, Financial News reports....
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...Today, the polo shirt belongs to a mass audience – Lacoste sold more than five million units of its classic style, the L.12.12, globally in 2022....
...Now try this I saw L’immensità last night....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...Porters wearing white gloves and blue suits with gold braiding whisk our suitcases through Paris’s Gare de L’Est....
...The highest price paid was £51.5mn (£59.4mn with fees; est £45mn, guaranteed), for René Magritte’s surrealist showstopper “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s on March 2, a record for the artist....
...At 6.1g/l, it was high in this wine but such are the winds of Monterey that grapes have to struggle to ripen and are habitually high in counterbalancing acidity....
...The way Cruz’s Colombian psychologist is reluctantly recruited doesn’t make a lot of sense....
...The exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders opened in February at Tate Modern in London; less than a week later, at Sotheby’s in London, René Magritte’s 1961 painting “L’empire des lumières” sold for £59.4mn...
...“There are no equivalent 100 per cent mortgages in the standard market,” says David Hollingworth of UK mortgage broker L&C....
...Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet still recalls when René Magritte announced he’d make her a version of his famous painting, L’Empire des Lumières....
...The most famous Surrealist image here, René Magritte’s phallic locomotive steaming through a fireplace, “Time Transfixed” (1938), makes the point....
...A novel this playful — like an episode of The Twilight Zone co-written by René Descartes and Mel Brooks — would be an unusual contender for the resolutely sober Booker Prize....
...But who can do court-wear better than Lacoste, the heritage brand founded by seven-time Grand Slam title winner René Lacoste?...
...For the VSOE’s most popular itinerary, I boarded in the late afternoon, from track six at Gare de l’Est....
...The work combines humour, technical skill and mastery of materials to achieve an uncanny trompe l’oeil that deceives the eye into believing just for an instant that one is looking at an ice cream....
...The late Denis Durantou of Ch L’Église-Clinet was responsible for it and it’s a fine memorial to his skills....
...John J Parman moesbooks.com Molho, Thessaloniki “My wife and I visited it in 2000 and spent a memorable hour with René Molho herself....
...per cent of enterprises owned by Latinos, 26 per cent by Asians and 17 per cent by whites, according to an analysis of federal data by economist Robert Fairlie of the University of California at Santa Cruz...
...Contributors include René Redzepi, Daniel Humm, Ana Ros and Calum Franklin among 300 others, with 2,200 listings in more than 400 cities. (The app is currently free....
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