Sentences with phrase «anonymous bidder»

At the auction where «Flag» was sold, the anonymous bidder who bought the Johns — now identified as Ms. Walton — also won Mark Rothko's «No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange)» for nearly $ 45 million; a marble - and - steel Bourgeois sculpture titled «Distant Figures» for $ 1.8 million; and a Joseph Cornell box, «Untitled (Palais de Cristal)» for $ 665,000.

The top price among the selection was for Andy Warhol's hand - painted masterpiece, Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable), 1962, which sold to an anonymous bidder for $ 23,882,500 / # 14,807,150 / $ 17,434,225.

Last night Tobias Meyer, head of Sotheby's contemporary art department worldwide and the event auctioneer, sold the brilliant blue canvas by Barnett Newman «Onement VI» to an anonymous bidder for a total of $ 43.8 million thus breaking the artist's previous record of $ 22.5 million set by Christie's just a year ago.

I was on the phone as an anonymous bidder at Sotheby's while I was working.

The car was sold to an anonymous bidder from Qatar and it is the most valuable production Land Rover ever to be sold at an auction.

Trump's childlike sketch of Manhattan's skyline fetched a grown - up price tag last night when an anonymous bidder offered up $ 29,184 for the work.

Here's that story: Back in 2010 an anonymous bidder paid $ 2,626,311 in a charity auction to have lunch with Buffett.

An anonymous bidder agreed at auction to pay $ 3,456,789 to eat lunch with Warren Buffett, tying the record for the right to dine with one of the world's most admired investors.

The auction price then proceeded to skyrocket, and in 2010, an anonymous bidder won with an amazing $ 2,626,311 bid.

The cost to dine with Buffett hit a record in 2012, with an anonymous bidder paying nearly $ 3.5 million.

At least three other anonymous bidders were competing by telephone through representatives in the room.

Then, only two anonymous bidders were left, Prince Bader and another person represented in the room by François de Poortere, the head of old master paintings at Christie's.

Not exact matches

The best lesson in really using and trusting your eye came when the tremendous show of Michelangelo drawings opened at the Met just days before Christie's auctioned off «a brand - new» Leonardo da Vinci for more than $ 450 million to an anonymous phone bidder.

At the sale last Wednesday evening, there were at least three bidders in contention at # 3.8 million, and one, an anonymous telephone bidder, at # 5.3 million.

Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline: Big Family, No. 2, was the session's most expensive lot; the 1995 oil on canvas went for HK$ 26,420,000 to an anonymous phone bidder.

It was underbid by an internet client in China, and was acquired by an anonymous telephone bidder.

Seven bidders vied for the painting, and the winner was Lisa Dennison, chairwoman of Sotheby's North and South America, on behalf of an anonymous client, Sotheby's said.

The painting would go on to sell for $ 69.6 million to an anonymous phone bidder, setting an auction record for the artist after a five - and - a-half-minute contest.

On loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for almost 30 years, it was bought by an anonymous phone bidder after a five - minute bidding contest.

The records kept falling with Stacked (1988), Jeff Koons» vertical group of polychromed wood animals, carved in a litter (edition of three), which sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $ 250,000 (est. $ 125,000 - $ 175,000).

The painting attracted numerous bidders including New York dealer William Acquavella before selling to an anonymous phone bidder for a record # 16.8 million ($ 26.6 million).

But the night's big draw was the chance to buy the copyrights to the entire Jimi Hendrix music catalog — they went to an anonymous phone bidder for $ 15 million.