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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...
...In 2013, they bought a derelict, Grade II-listed building and outhouses at auction in the village of Thorncombe....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...covinovenezia.com Disappointment An invitation to lunch at Girafe, the sought-after seafood restaurant in Paris’s Cité de l’Architecture, promised a treat....
...William Hurt had a dark-star twinkle and the looks of a preppy fallen on moments of self-doubt: blond, lean and broodingly handsome....
...Christie’s has secured Yves Klein’s three-metre-wide “Anthropométrie de l’époque bleue, (ANT 124)” (1960), which it will offer for about £24mn on June 28....
...Race Capital II, LP . . . Lifelike Capital [ridiculously minimalist website award winner] . . . ....
...Foppish Charles II, frightened James II and the more politically restricted courts of William III and Anne could not attract such foreign talents, and there was as yet no native school....
...Table 1 starts with RR’s u/l EBITA in 2022E and then deducts the utilisation of cash provisions, the excess of investment over D&A, then interest and tax....
...L.P. (“KKR”) and GK Investment Holding Group SA (“GKI”) (each a “Potential Offeror”) regarding possible offers for the Company....
...des espèces II” by Yves Tanguy and “Le parc du vautour” by René Magritte, both of which come to auction for first time....
...Collison was previously a managing director at William Blair. Anil Jhingan has joined Discovery Communications as executive vice-president of corporate development, Emea and Asia-Pacific....
...He sold Pierre Soulages’ “Composition” (c.1952) for €450,000, and André Masson’s “L’homme ivre (l’homme libre)” (1962) for €220,000. Both works were acquired by European collectors....
...He also named a volume of aphorisms after the city, L’Ombra di Venezia....
...Nightingale, Romanesca; Williams, The Lark Ascending, Hugh Bean; Messiaen, Catalogue d'oiseaux / Book 3 - 6. L'Alouette Lulu, Pierre-Laurent-Aimard...
...You can hear this in "The Lark Ascending," which Vaughan Williams wrote in 1914. [MUSIC PLAYING] The 20th-century composer Olivier Messiaen collected birdsong like Bartok collected folk music....
...Flicke has added a trompe-l’oeil vertical bar painted to look like flaking wood, as if separating the two men as well as shutting them off from the world....
...Why Villa Sorriso used to be owned by the late actor Robin Williams. Who Joyce Rey, joycerey.com or villasorrisonapavalley.com, tel: +1 310 285 7529 Top photograph: Flight-Sight S.L....
...Hill, WPP Shareholder meetings: Barclays, Bodycote, Meggitt, SThree ● HSBC will be back in the spotlight this week when shareholders gather at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London for the...
...The only two books I’m sure I’ll take with me are L’arte di essere felici by Arthur Schopenhauer and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina....
...L&G confirmed that it was considering lending and said it was “exploring all opportunities in the market” but had not yet made any loans....
...But the Part II sale will offer lower-priced works with estimates starting at $2,000, with 150 lots estimated at $6m....
...When did fashion become the go-to second career for celebrities in need of an Act II?...
...Entitled “E.O.W. on her Blue Eiderdown II” (1965), it is one of the celebrated cycle of oil paintings of Auerbach’s long-time lover and muse Estelle West....
...Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury Czeslaw Milosz was a poet of immense distinction but also a pungent, surprising essayist....
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