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From The Economist: Born, most likely, in Moscow in 1895 (though she liked to say it was Poland in 1902) to a wealthy family that emigrated, before the second world war, first to Paris, and then to California and New York, de Lempicka was glamorous, spoilt, demanding and bisexual. All of those attributes emerged in her painting. Two of the pictures here show at her dramatic best, and are even stronger in the flesh than they are in the catalogue. The 1932 portrait of Marjorie Ferry (pictured above), which Mr Joop bought in 1995 for $500,000 and for which he is now asking $4m-6m, shows a figure resembling Carole Lombard wrapped only in a sheet, casting a knowing look over her shoulder. With her hair in gold twists and her sheet that seems bent rather than draped, the texture is metallic as much as celluloid, conjuring up the sleek gleam of cars in the age of speed. Muscle rather than metal is the theme of the 1925 portrait of Marika, the Greek-born Duchesse de la Salle de Ro...

Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Sale on 28 February 2018 Two Salvador Dali paintings are up for sale. The two small oil works,     SALVADOR DALÍ, GRADIVA , 1931. ESTIMATE £1,200,000-1,800,000. "Gradiva" (1931)   SALVADOR DALÍ, MAISON POUR ÉROTOMANE , CIRCA 1932. ESTIMATE £1,200,000-1,800,000. and "Maison pour Erotomane" (circa 1932), have been in a private collection in Argentina, having been bought directly from the artist by an Argentinean countess. Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, 22 June 2017 Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Coeur-Sacré de Jésus Salvador Dali's 1962 painting Coeur-Sacré de Jésus is offered at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, 22 June at Bonhams New Bond Street, Lon...