How billionaires spent their money on an £800k portrait of Prince Harry and a £15m Hockney this week
Art sales have focused on the very best of British subject matter recently, from a royal prince to a famous Yorkshireman
Elizabeth Peyton, Prince Harry (with Flowers), sold for £886,200
The UK’s second richest family, the Reuben family, can be revealed by the Telegraph today as the buyer of the widely reviewed small portrait of David Hockney by Lucian Freud which sold at Sotheby’s last week for £15 million. If Hockney looks a little severe in it that is probably because he had to sit for over 100 hours for the older artist.
comprehensive analysis of world war ii and the cold war, sharply disagreeing with many of his successor s choices. hoover biographer george nash edited the manuscript published 350 years after its 50 years after its completion and discusses with richard norton smith. host: george nash, we re all accustomed to former presidents writing books, some more than others. what s unusual about herbert hoover, the writer and the magnum opus in particular? guest: it may be true that herbert hoover wrote more books than any other president. he wrote more than 30. t.r. might be a competitor, i haven t done an exact count host: jimmy carter. guest: jimmy carter has done quite a number as well. those would be two people in the same general vicinity, perhaps, and nixon with his many foreign policy books in his years after the presidency. hoover was a devoted writer, and i think the intellectual in hoover is on display in this book that has just been published, freedom betrayed.
this book was to be his effort to explain where mistakes weremarks where blunders were committed. in addition to a personal vindication, is it also something of a discussion about foreign policy. he argued that roosevelt made many mistakes, and in fact the title of this ever-evolving manuscript, wasn t through many titles one was called lost statesmanship, the lost statesmanship of roosevelt in particular, and he had comments about hari harry truman. but the focus was on fdr. some of or our viewers might not know about the surprising relationship that was going on between a young hoover and his near neighborhood franklin roosevelt. they were initially friends. and became friends in 1917 when roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy, and in that same year, herbert hoover became the food administrator of the united states. so hoover and roosevelt were in washington. and had sunday evening dinners now and then, and they were friendly, and roosevelt looked up t