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...And then there were all the models, like Veronica Webb, and a lot of these cool, older kids… and it was just so exciting to do....
...The Safra sale comprises 76 lots including “Unequal Lovers” (estimate $800,000-$1.2mn) by the 17th-century Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen....
...If the full-lengths steal the show, it is the more intimate portraits of family and friends that steal our hearts — whether the fresh-faced little boy in his cap by the court painter to Marie Antoinette,...
...William also imported Dutch horticultural talent, such as Hendrick Timmerman, who became head gardener of the now non-existent Twickenham Park....
...selection of Sargent’s more intimate, idiosyncratic portraits shows him fresh and experimental across four decades, unrivalled as a 19th century chronicler of the ambivalence of childhood — “Édouard and Marie-Louise...
...Marie Harf, a spokeswoman for the US state department, said on Friday that Mr Lady, who is now retired from the CIA, was “en route or back in the US”....
...indeed about 800 close-ups, roughly counted, of Carré’s shiny tummy, tenderly felt by every character, including the only convincing one, a creepy pregnancy-harpie on the beach, played by Rohmer veteran Marie...
...AmsterdamHendrick Avercamp The Little Ice Age, an exhibition of 45 paintings and drawings by the Dutch landscape painter Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), is in its first week at the Rijksmuseum....
...Raimund Bauer’s set is a bleak arrangement of white stairs, Marie-Jeanne Lecca’s costumes progress from buttoned-up black through whorish red to blood-soaked white, and Fabrice Kebour’s lighting is subtle...
...In the 1930s, his further retreat, against a blackening political climate, into a dreamy interior world also paralleled that of Matisse’s oriental odalisques and Picasso’s erotic paintings of Marie-Thérèse...
...One, called “Mother’s Ruin”, involves a bottle of Hendricks Gin, yellow rubber gloves for washing up and biscuits that read “hic”....
...Unwrapping revealed an early 18th-century fan depicting the young Louis XIV being shown a portrait of his bride-to-be, Marie Leszczynska of Poland....
...Christine Bridge, a London specialist in old glass, recently sold a rare cut crystal tumbler, probably by Baccarat c.1820, with three royal French portraits – Louis Napoleon, his young wife Marie Louise...
...Alexander Hendricks at Deutsche Bank said the numbers were impressive in spite of the less favourable trading environment, while “good cost control added to the quality of the results”....
...Kickboxing Geishas By Veronica Chambers Free Press $25, 288 pages US journalist Chambers shatters stereotypes of submissive, inscrutable Japanese women in this illuminating book, describing - among others...
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