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...Nicholson’s, the pub’s owner, please take note: punters expect better after paying the best part of £6 a pint....
...Finally, West End landlord Shaftesbury has been served with legal proceedings in relation to its dispute with shareholder Samuel Tak Lee....
...Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said this is why it has been slower than surveys to register a hit in demand from the Brexit vote....
...Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the collapse in housebuilders’ shares — before a slight recovery on Tuesday — was “consistent with a 5 per cent fall” in the prices of homes...
...; Piano Nobile has secured a Bridget Riley work from 1980 as well as the ‘The Grey Shawl’ by William Nicholson from the Harewood House collection....
...Other early drawings have a Dürer-like touch with the Conté pencil, or else a fixation on a Samuel Palmer-esque “poet” dreaming in a rural landscape....
...The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker. Nothing happens, it’s about a man’s lunch hour, but Baker sees beauty and fascination everywhere, especially in the smallest, most mundane objects....
...Benson, whose previous book The Farm (2005), examined his father’s family through their farm, quotes as an epigraph the words of a former miner interviewed by Raphael Samuel in 1981: “it’s this manner of...
...His support was based as much on aesthetic choice as personal friendship – he may have thought abstraction a dead end, but was still to buy (around 1935) a white relief by Ben Nicholson....
...For Liz Goldwyn, however, film-maker, jewellery designer and grand-daughter of the Hollywood executive Samuel Goldwyn, the real “magical names” are not those of Madonna or Wallis Simpson....
...Lamont quotes Niall Ferguson citing Samuel Johnson, “A man had better have 10,000 pounds at the end of 10 years passed in England, than 20,000 at the end of 10 years passed in India, because you must compute...
...Legendary modern art collector Samuel Courtauld purchased just one Picasso, the domesticated Blue Period “A Child with a Dove”....
...A visit to Nicholson Cemetery near the Kashmir Gate in Delhi is a chilling reminder of the fragility of European children in an era before modern medicine, filtered water and flights back home....
...He joined Seagram in 1982, having spent time attempting a Hollywood career (he co-produced Jack Nicholson’s box-office flop The Border)....
...The newest museum, the Hepworth, starts at an advantage: it owns 6,000 works amassed by the city of Wakefield, mostly of 20th-century British artists – Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, David Bomberg...
...In 2008, a fan spliced together a YouTube clip of Rose apparently interviewing himself in the style of Samuel Beckett....
...Other safe names on offer include Ben Nicholson and Ivon Hitchens....
...She is a dealer who operates without a gallery, which means she can offer paintings by some of the established names of 20th-century British art – Nicholson, Sutherland, Piper, Pasmore, Vaughan – for under...
...His favourite contemporary artists remained Augustus John, represented by some feeble portraits, and William Nicholson....
...struck me was not so much the titillating tale of cuckoldry as the quantities of ceramics featured – either as neutral furnishings or as satirical symbols poking fun at the “contagion of china fancy”, as Samuel...
...Fiction Compiled by Angel Gurría-Quintana The Anthologist By Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, £14.99 A poet with writer’s block who ponders the rules of metre and rhyme while pottering about the house...
...In 1957 Samuel Beckett had been embroiled in a wrangle with officials over the line “The Bastard! He doesn’t exist!”, uttered when Endgame’s Hamm shakes his fist at God....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times Not really an illusion. But growth rates per capita tend to converge in medium term....
...unwillingness to commit to a point of view: thus 19th-century painters such as Philip Wilson Steer hovered between impressionism and Constable, and 20th-century eminences such as Graham Sutherland tried to cross Samuel...
...This June he will be bringing a Henry Moore sculpture priced about £250,000 along with a good selection of leading 20th-century British artists – Nicholson, Sickert, Bomberg, Naum Gabo – plus a Peter Blake...
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