a Modigliani in 2015, when another of his 22 nudes from the period was sold to the Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian and his wife, Wang Wei.

Liu, a taxi driver-turned real estate and pharmaceuticals billionaire, bought the painting to display at one of his two private museums, which are designed to introduce Chinese people to western art as well as display the couple’s traditional Chinese art collection.

Lui told the New Yorker in a rare interview that he was interested in Modigliani for the way he lived and died as for his paintings. “It’s not just his art but his life. Every object has its story,” he said.

Liu also broke the record price for Ming dynasty porcelain when he bought a tiny piece known as “chicken cup” for $36.3m inhas, upon the request of the Iraqi government, already gone beyond its anti-jihadist operation in Syria, and has “extended the fight against terrorism into Iraq, with the express permission of the Iraqi government.” DWN goes on to say, “In early October, the Iraqi government gave a free hand to Russia to extend the attacks against ISIS into Iraqi territory. One of the conditions for this was prior coordination of the air strikes with Iraq’s government.”

That is the same arrangement Russia has had, since the end of September, with the Syrian government. And, so, a Joint Intelligence Coordination Center (JICC) was established by Russia in Baghdad. This was announced on September 29th, when Reuters reported that, “Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said … an information center was being established in