The corpse is that of famous painter Jacopo Pontormo, a real figure of the Italian Renaissance, as are all of the novel’s characters. Eleven years before his death, Pontormo had been tasked with ...

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‘I don’t need LSD for things to look pretty,’ says Ellen, the artist protagonist of this 1979 New York novel by painter and writer Elaine Kraf (who died in 2013).

The work, painted in about 1560, had not been seen on the market in some 30 years. It went to a private European collector bidding by phone, selling within the $15-20 million pre-sale estimate.

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Subsequently, the body was taken to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College for a post-mortem examination. The death, and the subsequent entombment, came to light after Gopan’s sons announced on January 9 ...