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...From Monet’s letters I gained a sense of how and why he took these leaps into the unknown: his daring, energy and confidence in his virtuosity, a turbulent temperament that craved an expressive outlet....
...Derain’s gloriously strident “The Dance”, spinning with a snake across a jungle, demonstrates influences from Gabon masks, Javanese temple sculptures, Romanesque drapery — a fantastic melee and a quite unknown...
...“The Surrealists and [Sigmund] Freud opened the door to the mind, to the stuff of dreams and to psychological unknowns that are now possible to express,” Camu says....
...Beeple’s sale, paid for in the cryptocurrency ether through Christie’s last week, turned the relatively unknown graphic designer into the third-priciest living artist at auction, after Jeff Koons and David...
...That secretive wine bar, unknown to FT colleagues, near St Paul’s?...
...There are too many potential buyers and too many unknowns....
...“Everything changes, even stone,” Monet groaned....
...(FT) Best shot Six months ago Moderna was an unknown biotech that had never produced a medicine. Now the Boston-based company is at the forefront of the race to come up with a coronavirus vaccine....
...Even more important to posterity, Fénéon signed an exclusive contract to represent a virtually unknown painter: Henri Matisse....
...“It is a very dangerous situation,” said Rob Bongenaar, a director of Dutch telecoms industry body Monet. “These people are attacking vital infrastructure.”...
...In Paris and Catalonia in 1906-09 Sorolla’s then unknown compatriot Picasso was inventing Cubism....
...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...
...For example, a Hirst-designed bar called Unknown was unveiled recently in Las Vegas’s Palms Casino Resort....
...Mr Bizzarri in turn plucked Alessandro Michele, 45, a largely unknown member of Gucci’s internal design team and a Roman notable for his Renaissance-inflected style and appreciation of streetwear, to become...
...But $81.4m was spent on a Monet at Christie’s; $34m on a Gerhard Richter at Sotheby’s; and Phillips had one of its best evening auctions ever....
...Vermeer at the Louvre, Monet to Kandinsky at the Musée d’Orsay, and, sandwiched between them chronologically, two exhibitions at the Petit Palais on 18th-century French art....
...What about Monet?...
...“Count the numbers: Rothko, Monet, Bonnard. We have Julie Mehretu, Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas....
...virtually unknown in the west....
...Castelli turning American pop art into an international phenomenon; dark-suited Etonian Jay Jopling selling the Young British Artists: all repeated the high-risk, high-returns strategy of heady speculation on unknown...
...I like the slacker moment, the slacker attitude, in Picasso, Matisse, even Monet, in people like René Daniëls, early John Currin – it means you don’t really care that much, not that the work is made with...
...gathered in New York this week for the season’s biggest auctions of impressionist and modern masterpieces, the Munich discovery has captured almost as much attention as the Giacomettis, Picassos and Monets...
...Top lot was Monet’s “Nymphéas” (1905), making $43.8m (est $30m-$50m) and sold to a US buyer....
...Monet was so passionate about these beguiling flowers that he painted them over and over again....
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