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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...
...“We’re not counting on travel retail to get back to prior levels,” chief financial officer Tracey Travis told analysts during an earnings call on Wednesday....
...At Alexander McQueen the mood manifested in a bewitching headmistress feel, with sharply shouldered black and chalk stripe tailoring pieces worn with white shirts and black ties, academic-style gowns and...
...As an election year quickly approaches, the clock is ticking on President Biden’s trustbusters to chalk up wins....
...Finally, the Salle de l’Horloge returns to the show’s Renaissance origins with the Capodimonte’s choicest drawings, led by two life-size charcoal and black-chalk cartoons....
...Curation comes courtesy of co-director Nick Higbee, whose tastes skew towards 20th century and local (Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water, £30, is a bestseller)....
...Mughal artist Abu’l Hasan produced this masterpiece 400 years ago. It shows an unarmed hunter climbing towards quarry poised for acrobatic escape....
..., Caspar David Friedrich: Art For a New Age, continues at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg to April 1 (hamburger-kunsthalle.de), featuring more than 50 paintings, among them “Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog” and “Chalk...
...Xavier Hufkens’s roster includes everyone from Tracey Emin and Lynda Benglis to Paul McCarthy and Roni Horn....
...It’s not my favourite mini camper – but it’s my favourite price, by a long chalk. The real thrift move would be to relocate to Europe and buy the doll-sized, electric Xbus Camper....
...Feathery red chalk triangles in “Figure in Movement” and pasted paper shapes in the collage known as “Movement” (title unknown) pirouette in graphic dancing compositions....
...Other benefits include invitations to wine dinners with Michelin-starred chefs such as Simon Rogan (L’Enclume)....
...Her blue-grey eyes focus on the poster for the Sam Szafran exhibition currently on at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris....
...The tiles, which have borne a century and a half of politicians’ footfalls, will form the “carpet-like” floor of a greenhouse painted over with chalk from the white cliffs of Dover....
...If you have a classic outfit – let’s say a chalk-stripe three-piece suit – but you wear it with glossy shoes, it changes everything....
...I’ve been seeing Tracey for more than 20 years....
...His first purchase, in 1913, was Bartolomeo Cesi’s rapt, trompe l’oeil “A Carthusian Monk”, set as if in a niche....
...“We sought to rid ourselves of the trompe l’oeil in order to find the ‘trompe l’esprit’.” Picasso spent a lifetime exploring those implications, recasting representation as invention....
...One of the best is the concept store L’Eclaireur, which has a unique mix of clothing, furniture and ceramics....
...A woman stands poised on the very edge of the dance floor: chalk-white face; white hair; white clothes; black lipstick....
...Chalk it up to all that drama in the retail industry....
...Mr Fry estimates that Inmarsat’s spectrum is worth £10 a share, half of that valuing being the US “L-band” holding....
...Whether through teaching — the late, fearless British artist Helen Chadwick, for instance, taught the similarly transgressive Tracey Emin — or second-hand books, they made their voices heard....
...This had the low dosage at disgorgement of 4g/l sugar but doesn’t taste at all austere. Tense but fully ripe. Very successful....
...of collage, and that Rodin’s anguished expressionism influenced more or less everyone: from Giacometti’s existentially vanishing figures to — quality here varies wildly — Baselitz’s clunky bronzes and Tracey...
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