Aidy Bryant, Kristen Stewart and Beck Bennett in the Saturday Night Live sketch referencing Farrow & Ball The plug was not a case of paid-for product placement, but it led to a big spike in interest. But despite the growth in sales, FB Ammonite still posted a pre-tax loss of £26.9m – which it said reflects how the business is structured and financed rather than being illustrative of performance . The company has been owned since 2014 by a Los Angeles-based private equity fund. The Private Equity Group of Ares Management bought it from another investment fund, European Capital Limited. Now Ares Management is in turn selling it to a buyer who is confident in the Dorset company’s potential for growth.
Claude Monet masterpiece fetches $70.4 million at auction
An impressionist masterwork from Monet s Water Lilies series smashed price expectations in New York. The artist had dedicated his twilight years to the iconic motif.
A water lily work by Claude Monet has gone under the hammer in New York
Le Bassin aux nymphéas (Water Lily Pond, 1919), a celebrated work from Charles Monet’s iconic
Water Lilies series of paintings, was sold for near $70.4 million (€58.3 million) in New York last night.
The price is among the top five for works by the artist to be sold at auction the $110.7 million record was set in 2019 for a painting from Monet s Haystacks series. It far outstripped the price for works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne also sold at the Sotheby s contemporary art auction.
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Betye Saar, Her Daughters, and the House That Never Stopped Making Art
The pioneering artist and her three daughters on family, creativity, and why being able to see beauty, even in difficult times, is the true mother of invention. Photographs by Texas Isaiah Texas Isaiah
Betye Saar’s career as an artist now spans seven decades. But in many ways, her work has never felt more of the moment than it does right now. Since the early 1960s, Saar’s prints, assemblages, collages, and installations, which often incorporate found and discarded objects, have radically explored notions of history, identity, racism, sexism, mysticism, and even the very nature of art. One of her best-known pieces, 1972’s