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The FX series 'Love Story' has brought renewed attention to Aaron Shikler’s 1970 posthumous presidential portrait of John F. Kennedy. A dramatic scene in the show features Naomi Watts, portraying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, dancing with the portrait, highlighting the painting's enduring place in the American cultural psyche. The artwork is notable for its departure from traditional presidential portraiture, depicting Kennedy in a somber, meditative pose with his head bowed and arms crossed.

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Italian fashion designer and art collector Valentino Garavani died in Rome on January 19 at age 93. Born in Voghera, he moved to Paris for fashion studies, worked for Jean Dessès and Guy Laroche, then launched his own brand in Rome in 1959. Known for elegant gowns worn by icons like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Princess Diana, he retired in 2008. Garavani and his longtime business partner Giancarlo Giammetti built significant art collections; Garavani sold a Basquiat painting for $67 million at Christie’s in 2023, and Giammetti sold another for $93 million in 2021. Garavani also owned works by Warhol, Lichtenstein, and de Kooning. In 2024, he opened PM23, an exhibition space in Rome run by the Fondazione Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti, which launched its second show, “Venus,” featuring Joana Vasconcelos, two days before his death.

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A four-panel suite of Norman Rockwell paintings, *So You Want to See The President!* (1943), sold for $7.2 million at Heritage Auctions on November 14, following a bitter ownership dispute. The White House Historical Association revealed itself as the buyer, marking the most expensive acquisition in the Association's history. The work, commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary Stephen T. Early, had hung in the White House for decades before being removed in 2022 amid legal battles over ownership. A federal judge ruled in favor of William Elam, the grandson of Early's daughter, in 2023, clearing the way for the sale.

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