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...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...
...René Repasi, a German Socialist MEP who works at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University, said Timmermans was the only politician who could both rally disenchanted Labour voters and work with the Greens....
...Henry scoured catalogues and gained from private presents: some of his best varieties came from France and Germany, including René André with lovely small apricot-pink flowers, and the unusual Erinnerung...
...A postwar highlight is Henry Moore and Francis Bacon battling sensibilities of societal healing against lonely existential anguish....
...Amphora vase by Vaisselle Boutique, £95 Designed in London and handmade by a family of artisans in Andalusia. vaisselleboutique.com Flowerpot with saucer by René Barba for Serax, £25 This terracotta pot...
...News round-up Telecoms company backed by Roman Abramovich sold for £1 (FT) Property mogul René Benko cleared in bribery case (FT) SoftBank Group failed to report $285mn in income to tax bureau (Nikkei...
...René Kofod-Olsen, chief executive of V.Group, said the western military alliance should intervene to ensure trade can flow from a region of vital importance for global food supplies....
...Job moves British Airways has hired René de Groot as its new operating chief. She joins from rival KLM, where she held the same position....
...Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer ‘How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World’ by Henry Mance is published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on April 29 and in the US by Vintage on July 13 Photographs...
...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)....
...In north Amsterdam, “an area known as NDSM is booming, with big developers such as Hines building large, mixed-use schemes,” says Bas Wilberts, director of Savills Netherlands....
...Meanwhile in Europe, the French gallerist Denise René (1913-2012) was one of the foremost promoters of abstract art, Op-art and kinetic art....
...“This divergence in fortunes would be understandable if we . . . like René Descartes, saw animals as automatons that cannot feel pain or joy.”...
...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....
...But he may have also been inspired by René Lacoste’s classic polo shirt, which wasn’t even a polo shirt at all because Lacoste was a champion tennis player....
...In 1637 René Descartes argued that there was a clear line between animals — who had no souls, free will or ability to reason — and humans....
...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...
...Patek Philippe Henry Graves SupercomplicationKnown simply as “the Graves”, after its first owner Henry Graves Jr, the son of a successful Wall Street financier, the Patek Philippe Supercomplication weighs...
...Lesser-known dealers include the Germans Henry Roland and Gustav Delbanco....
...“If we have more of these types of exits wherein founders are rewarded, they will be inspired to start their own company,” said Rene Meily, president of the accelerator IdeaSpace....
...René Magritte remained defiantly suburban at home while crazily inventive at work....
...David Henry Hwang’s 1988 play M Butterfly dispenses with the racism and updates the sexual politics. But the story is just as silly as the opera....
...So argued Henry Levin, professor of economics and education at Columbia University....
...Gunvor’s metals business was headed by Rene Van Der Kam, who has already left the company....
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