Hints and tips:
...When her husband died in debt in a grim boarding house, like a Balzac character, Monet paid for his funeral and married Alice....
...Because the body collectors would come to try to collect the bodies to prevent the spread of plague and other things....
...Yet the building, with its dim hallways and expansive, marble-floored rooms inside, occupies an enviable location....
...“Robert is a proper collector and I’m really touched he kept and lived with my work for all those years,” he says....
...-- also has a Q1 update that indicates very little about whether new management can turn the error-prone, overgenerous high street property collector can turn itself into an actual bank....
...banks will not refinance any of its existing debt and no additional disposals....
...Yet, before his surprise acquisition of Sotheby’s was unveiled, he remained relatively unknown both on the art scene and among Sotheby’s investors....
...Both Natalya Semenova’s The Collector and Living with Matisse, Picasso and Christo, a compilation of narrative, memoirs and archival images edited by Carrie Pilto, grippingly tell unknown personal stories...
...Born in 1435, Verrocchio was the son of a tile-maker turned tax collector....
...For example, a Hirst-designed bar called Unknown was unveiled recently in Las Vegas’s Palms Casino Resort....
...a willingness to try to repay his debts....
...The grandma I had known — never less than immaculately coiffed and dressed, a shrewd and knowledgeable collector of antiques, and a baker of puddings so sublime I can taste them to this day — slowly disappeared...
...His mother and grandmother were collectors, but “they just enjoyed it, with no bigger plans than putting it on the table, or in the hallway.”...
...In the five months since Jenkins left for Telluride, essentially unknown, critics have routinely called Moonlight a masterpiece, and him a virtuoso....
...And while something may not be available today, events can trigger a sale in the future, the classic “three Ds” of the art market: death, divorce and debt....
...I tell her I imagine her as a tiny figure astride a giant rocket ship shooting into the unknown, and her face lights up. “The rocket is incredibly important, yes!” she says....
...However, earlier this year the private collector who had bought it 40 years ago approached the auction house....
...Mr Yan, however, sees himself as much more than a debt collector in this possibly dangerous errand....
...People in the rundown terraces are unlikely even to open their doors to canvassers, fearing the knock is from debt collectors, says Labour’s Louise Baldock....
...“On the contrary, they are less ignorant, less closed-minded than our French collectors.”...
...virtually unknown in the west....
...In his 77th year, the 4th baron’s activities as banker, art collector and philanthropist ensure he remains a busy man....
...At first, Russian collectors focused on renowned Old Masters....
...The format is hybrid, both commercial and non-commercial, with 68 works on show, half of them loans from collectors – one is David Roberts, the rest are secret – the other half consisting of works of art...
...The author of Liar’s Poker returns to his old stamping ground in the debt markets to write the most entertaining and accessible account yet of the subprime mortgage catastrophe, told through the eyes of...
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