It’s being offered by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Nov. 1 at a Sotheby’s auction of Russian art. It has a presale estimate of $3 million to $5 million.

The “Pearl Mosque at Delhi” painting is about 13 feet high and 16 feet wide. It was painted between 1876 and 1879. It shows men kneeling at a mosque.

The auction house says the proceeds will benefit the museum’s acquisition fund.

NEW YORK A giant painting by a Russian artist will be auctioned in New York City to benefit a Boston museum.

The artist was Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin (vah-SIHL’-ee vah-SIHL’-ih-vihch ver-uh-SHAH’-gihn). “Pearl Mosque at Delhi” is from his Indian series. It’s considered one of his most significant works to appear at auction in more than 100 years.

It went on view at Sotheby’s galleries on Wednesday.

“I started the season being inspired by a couple of Beardsley illustrations,” Doo-Ri Chung says of her Spring 2012 collection. “Using that as a starting point, I did some sketches that became the foundation for the prints, and throughout the development of Spring, the idea of illustration really played a part in not only the prints but how I chose the fabrics.”

Her collection will make its official debut tomorrow afternoon at Eyebeam, but Style.com got a sneak preview of the designer’s sketching process. In the video (above), she is sketching the first look she ever created for her Spring collection. “I was thinking of a single piece of fabric that was anchored by the belt,” she tells Style.com. “I wanted to create a soft yet tailored look by adding the pleats to the draping.”
—Kristin Studeman

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Days before Kardashian’s Oct. 21 birthday, the pair “had it out,” a source told Us Weekly. “She told him he needs to do something fruitful,” the source said, unraveling that unemployed Humphries has been partying on his wife’s dime. “He needs to obtain off his ass, like, yesterday.”

As the spouses struggle in their marriage fair two months ashore, Humphries has a major new fiscal headache, thanks to a shady visitor by their $10 million Aug. 20 wedding.

More woes for Kim Kardashian’s man Kris Humphries.

Documents reveal that Andrey C. Hicks, one of the attendees at the over-the-top nuptials in Montecito, Calif., has been caught for allegedly scampering a $1.7 million investment scam.

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TMZ reports that NBA star Humphries, 26, personally lost hundreds of thousands of greenbacks in the scheme, in which investors gave Hicks money because a bogus, billion-dollar hedge fun. Indeed, a rep because Humphries tells Us Weekly: “Kris Humphries namely the sufferer of an investment deceit. He is going with law enforcement authorities and will no have anyone beyond remark until the material is resolved.”

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This won’t make things any easier for Humphries, currently out of work due to the NBA lockout, and diligent wife Kardashian, 31.

Hicks (who apparently lied to investors almost his credentials and backdrop as a Harvard grad) was arrested Friday, and could face up to 20 annuals in prison and a $250,000 nice if convicted.

“I haven’t discerned my father for nearly 20 years. It’s naught I want a pity party for. He left me and my mom, and I was offended,” she says. “I wanted to be a daddy’s girl so wrong. God curse The Cosby Show for namely made me muse, ‘Why isn’t my family like that?’ But this is not a perfect globe.”

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“He reached out to me mentioning he wanted to see me, yet it’s disastrous he did it so publicly,” she admits. “I want to meet him, and soon, I really do. I forgave him a long period antecedent.”

Lovett tried to adjoin his estranged daughter via a tabloid in June, and Rowland maneuvers to slowly let him behind into her life.

That’s not the merely entity Rowland wanted to get off her chest during the revealing Cosmopolitan UK interview: she likewise resolved to open up about being abandoned by her dad, Christopher Lovett, when she was fair a baby.

“The decision was 10 years in the making, so I’m cozy talking about it,” Rowland tells Cosmopolitan UK’s November issue. “It’s something I actually ambitioned apt do because myself — not as a male, not as work, for myself. And I love them!”

Kelly Rowland was weary of having “mini nuggets for boobs,” so the 30-year-old singer did something about it: she obtained breast implants in October 2007.

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Four years afterward, the “Motivation” singer says she has no regrets about enhancing her cup size.

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To buy: $60, Express

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