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...Behind the glittery facades of London’s Selfridges and New York’s Chrysler Building, Austrian property billionaire René Benko assembled a financial time bomb....
...A postwar highlight is Henry Moore and Francis Bacon battling sensibilities of societal healing against lonely existential anguish....
...This was buoyed by celebrity endorsements from Rihanna, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, as well as, more recently, Catherine, the Princess of Wales....
...René Magritte’s signature “Torse nu dans les nuages” (c1937) sold for $8.4m in a live sale at Bonhams, New York on Tuesday ($10m with fees, est $6m-$9m)....
...Meanwhile in Europe, the French gallerist Denise René (1913-2012) was one of the foremost promoters of abstract art, Op-art and kinetic art....
...Among the collection is René Magritte’s gouache “Journal intime” (c1954), which was bought for £237,650 in 2002 and now carries an estimate of $2.5m to $3.5m....
...A delightful read from the FT’s Elaine Moore looks at why screen addiction is treated as a real affliction....
...Rousseau, Uhde staged seminal shows in 1928 and 1932 that brought together for the first time many artists here: André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Jean Eve, Séraphine Louis (Uhde’s one-time housekeeper), René...
...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” by Yves Tanguy and “Le parc du vautour” by René...
...René Magritte remained defiantly suburban at home while crazily inventive at work....
...René Rasmussen is the first recorded western owner of the piece — his Parisian gallery was frequented by the likes of Picasso and the Surrealists....
...There were pieces by artists including Picasso, Salvador Dalí and René Lalique, as well as specially commissioned items by modern artists like Henry Moore....
...At the family house there were sculptures by Henry Moore and Giacometti in the garden, and a Dalí hung over the fireplace. His father was good-looking and charismatic....
...The festival included screenings of Love Story (1970), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) and Almost Famous (2000) and pre-show discussions with the films’ stars Ali MacGraw, Rene Russo and Kate Hudson (whom...
...Luisa Casati, the extravagant socialite of the 1910s, liked to turn up to parties with two pet cheetahs; jewellery house Cartier has been using the panther as a motif since 1914; and René Gruau produced...
...Sussudio blasting in the morning is a great wake-up call. – Marcus Samuelsson … Roberta’s Recommended for: Wish I’d opened Address: 261 Moore Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 11206, United States;...
...Berger ended hopefully, however, with a reproduction of René Magritte’s surrealist “On the Threshold of Liberty”, depicting a cannon pointing at various traditional paintings – landscapes of sky and forest...
...“We thought this was a good moment to bring together contemporary artists and some older ones, whose estates we represent in some cases,” says René Gimpel....
...René Carayol, a writer and broadcaster on business and entrepreneurship, and Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and professor of management studies at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, answered...
...Fernandez Moores thinks the Dutchmen were safe but the regime itself was in danger....
...“My approach is the opposite of Michael Moore’s,” he says. “He’s right to attack the gun lobby and the health system but the way he does it is manipulative. He treats his audiences like children.”...
...Silliest distractions: Cutesy- pooh ditties attributed to someone called “Moore”. Most superfluous effort: Dwayne Croft slurring the Count’s aria from Figaro....
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