South Korea has stringent inheritance tax laws and high rates, resulting in a hefty bill for the family, including Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, who is currently in jail for bribery, embezzlement and other offences.



Marie-Thérèse was 17 years old when she met the 45-year-old Picasso in Paris. They began a secret relationship while he was still married to his first wife, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova.
Marie-Thérèse became his model for a number of paintings and sculptures and gave birth to his daughter, giardino monet giverny Maya Widmaier-Picasso.

Marcos has been campaigning on a promise to bring unity to the Philippines but is not entertaining questions about atrocities during his father's rule, which his critics say his family has neither apologised for, nor properly acknowledged.

Like Pacquiao, other presidential contenders, Vice President Leni Robredo website Manila mayor Francisco Domagaso website Senator Panfilo Lacson website and Leody de Guzman, a labour leader, all pledged to root out government graft and protect public money.

Dec 2004, Sao Paolo - In Brazil thieves stole Picasso's 1904 work "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch," worth up to $50 million, and local painter Candido Portinari´s 1939 "The Coffee Worker," valued at about $5.5 million, from Sao Paulo's leading art museum.

Both paintings were recovered the next month.

He was particularly influenced by the writings of French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul and American physicist Ogden Rood and incorporated their scientific approach to color and optical effects into his paintings. With a keen interest in the science of art, Seurat began studying color theory, perception and the psychological power of line and form.



"This is a moment when the artist who previously used the streets as his canvas starts taking those celebrated masterpieces of our history and making those same witty, playful incursions into the hallowed territory of the great canon of art history," said Branczik.



Take a closer look at Vincent van Gogh's painting The Bedroom online.

To demonstrate what they could do with their new discovery, the team painstakingly put together the image above, with the idea that it could be implemented in printing applications; in particular, low-cost, high-resolution plasmonic colour printing that could be used in security tagging, cryptography and information storage.

NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - The 1932 Pablo Picasso painting "Femme nue couchée" sold for $67.5 million on Tuesday at its auction debut at Sotheby's in New York, the most recent large sale at auction for blue-chip art.



Art lovers can also read digital catalogs of past exhibits, reference materials, and other resources including artists' and architects' papers.

Cox hung the painting in the drawing room of his mansion in Dallas. His ownership of the painting was kept a secret to everyone but his closest friends until his death last year, according to .



Meirowsky had a wide collection of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism works, including Van Gogh's Portrait of Camille Roulin (1888), that can now be found in the Museo de Arte, São Paulo.

The museum plans to release more public domain images over time.




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MANILA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao vowed on Friday that if elected Philippines president he would strengthen efforts to recover billions of dollars of wealth missing since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, as part his anti-graft platform.

But he says that the joy of the iPad is the ability to work extremely fast, without all the clutter of the conventional artist. There's no need to wait for each layer to dry.