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Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York acquired the painting from the artist shortly after he completed it. [1] The painting was first exhibited in New York in December 1968, and then was kept in Pierre Matisse Gallery’s collection for several years, exhibiting at some of the most important retrospectives of the artist’s work, including the definitive exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in ...
At least until 1974 Le Grand Cirque was in a property of Gustave Stern Foundation, New York. [5] In 2007 the painting was acquired from the Gustave Stern Foundation and Sold at Sotheby’s, New York for $13.8 million, becoming a part of private collection in Switzerland. [6] In 2017, the painting was sold for $16 million, to an Asian telephone ...
Le Grand Cirque may refer to: Le Grand Cirque , a 1948 wartime memoir by Pierre Clostermann Le Grand Cirque (film) , a 1950 film adaptation of the memoir directed by Georges Péclet
Image in Le Grand Cirque Le Grand Cirque: 1956: Private collection Image online [224] Meeting Ruth and Vooz. Illyustratsiya to the Bible: 1957 to 1959: Image online [225] Clowns at Night: 1957: Private collection Image online [226] The Concert: 1957: Private collection Image online [227] The Lovers of Vence: 1957: Image online [228] Abraham and ...
Le Grand Cirque is a 1950 French war film directed by Georges Péclet. It is based on the memoir of the same name by Pierre Clostermann. [1] [2] [3] Plot.
In 1951, Clostermann authored an account of his wartime experiences entitled Le Grand Cirque (published in English as The Big Show). One of the first post-war fighter pilot memoirs, its various editions have sold over two and a half million copies. [5] William Faulkner commented that this is the finest aviation book to come out of World War II ...
El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions – before diving into a sacred lake ...
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to ...