Irish bloodstock billionaire John Magnier is selling an Amedeo Modigliani nude worth an estimated US$150 million – the most for any work of art at auction this season, according to people familiar with the matter.
The 1917 Nu couche (sur le cote gauche) depicts a reclining nude woman from behind, one leg bent, looking calmly over her shoulder at the viewer – a pose almost identical to La Grande Odalisque by Ingres from a century earlier. Read More...
STANDING START I danced my first part when I was eight (in 1975), in a garage in Rome – it wouldn’t be allowed under health and safety regulations today. I was Coppélia, I had to stand on a stool for a long time and halfway through I felt sick because my mum had made the tutu too tight. So I got off to find her to fix it. Much later, I was told that my teacher had said, “If she goes back on, she’ll be a ballerina. Read More...
