But Julian Schnabel didn't speak French when he originally decided to tackle the subject matter, right?

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Gianni Versace commissioned Julian Schnabel to make him a bed for his Manhattan apartment.

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In September, in a change of key, Colnaghi will show photographs by Julian Schnabel, an American filmmaker and artist.

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Now this obscure writer's book has been transformed into a brilliant movie by Julian Schnabel, the artist and cinematic dilettante.

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Past artists have included Isaac Mizrahi and Julian Schnabel.

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By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.

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The little book that Bauby composed by blinking while a secretary ran through the alphabet serves as the basis for this astounding movie, which was directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Ronald Harwood.

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When painting returned yet again from the dead in the 1980s, the big news was the neoexpressionism of David Salle, Julian Schnabel and the "Three C's" (Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia and Enzo Cucchi) from Italy.

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Along with Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Ross Bleckner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and a handful of others, he was a star in the incandescent New York scene that spun art, fashion, celebrity and big money into a drug-fueled extravaganza.

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