Sentences with phrase «at an auction house»

When the bidding opened at Christie's in New York on Nov. 15, Prince Bader participated by telephone and was represented in the room by Alex Rotter, co-chairman of postwar and contemporary art at the auction house.

(CNN)- A rare Bible that's been to the moon and back will have a new owner Thursday night - the complete King James version, framed in gold leaf, is under the hammer at an auction house in New Hampshire.

The period part of the film concerns itself with the scandal that rocked Britain when Edward VIII (James D'Arcy), bookmarked to be the next King of England, becomes involved with the twice - divorced American Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough); the modern portion finds Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), an unhappily married woman in New York, finding solace among the aforementioned couple's possessions at an auction house, and receiving further comfort from a kindly security guard (Oscar Isaacs) who works there.

The Nantucket wooden chair was sold on Saturday at the auction house Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes.

Gooding & Company announced two of its big guns: a 1955 Gullwing coupe and a 1957 Roadster, both of which will be sold at the auction house's Pebble Beach sale August 18 and 19.

Up for grabs at the auction house's upcoming Monterey sale on Fisherman's Wharf will be a 2006 Porsche 911 GT3 RS with a rare pedigree.

I bought mine at an auction house for around $ 8k in 2013.

It means you're camping at the auction house, reposting every hour or two to undercut the other five guys who are doing the exact same thing.

Luckily, I always have the end goal in mind while playing these sorts of games, so the thought of learning a certain ability or being able to afford an item at the auction house makes the grinding a lot easier to me while it continues to absolutely baffle people like my roommate.

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A boost for women artists came in the same room a week later, however, at the auction house's contemporary evening sale, when Jenny Saville's Shift (1996 — 97) soared over a # 1.5 — 2 million estimate to sell at # 6.8 million — a record for any British female artist at auction.

The Wall Street Journal's Anna Russell reports that sellers at both auction houses have in part attributed the comparatively slack performances to the uncertainty caused by today's referendum on whether the UK should remain in the European Union.

The sales saw large sums spent on the onetime artistic rabble rousers — including a few whose works are not typically seen at the auction houses.

We were at the auction house for a preview of its recent Contemporary sale.

In December, photographer Mitchel Gray brought lawsuits against Jeff Koons, the auction house Phillips Auctioneers, and an unnamed former owner of Koons» work, alleging that the artist plagiarized his photograph in a 1986 work that was then sold at the auction house.

The choice in title also attempts to suggest a conceptual curatorial style on the part of Gouzer, or an experimental irreverence toward his function at the auction house — an approach gleaned, we can imagine, as a winning stance from some of the artistic careers listed above.

It also offered insight into the collecting impulse of Henry Pearlman, a businessman who became interested in modern art when he saw a painting by Chaim Soutine at an auction house in the mid-1940s.

Apparently, the trend of private sales at auction houses has created problems as has an unwillingness of private galleries to participate in surveys about purchasing.

Art Sales Index records show that three most recent Clyfford Still paintings to go under the hammer were all sold at that auction house: «1947 - R - No. 1» fetched $ 21.3 million in 2006 «1955 - D, PH - 387» sold for $ 7.9 million in 2007, and «1946 (PH - 182)» made $ 14 million in 2008.

Ever since the piece was sold at the auction, the art world was speculating about the mystery bidder who took home the work after a protracted contest lasting nearly 20 minutes at the auction house.

New Yorkers presume they own the rights to Abstract Expressionism, with canonic works that reside permanently in the core holdings of MoMA and frequent sightings of both major and minor examples of the movement at auction houses and in the galleries.

Sotheby's Opens Private Gallery — The trend toward private sales at the auction houses grows stronger with news that Sotheby's will open a private gallery in London, in a space adjacent to its main salesrooms on New Bond Street.

That figure doesn't come near Christie's record - toppling $ 692 million total the previous night, but it does establish a record as the highest - grossing sale ever at the auction house.

In 2007, a real estate agent named John Maloof paid $ 380 at an auction house for a box of 30,000 prints and negatives from an unknown photographer.

Throughout the year Italian art has been making headlines at auction houses.

She has also held positions in Sotheby's client loyalty, business development, and bid departments; at the auction house's Los Angeles branch, she was formerly vice president of client and business development.

There was active bidding from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the Middle East, according to officials at the auction house.

While experts at the auction houses will not name names, several said that although serious collectors are buying the pieces, many buyers and sellers also are speculators, or «flippers,» hoping for a tidy profit.

That's been the trajectory for a long time, but it has been accelerated by some big sales at some auction houses like Christie's, and also by some institutional interest.

The sales that began last week at auction houses in New York, with more than $ 2.1 billion of art on offer, are the biggest test of the trade since stocks tumbled in August and September, unnerving investors.

Still, fewer than 10 works appeared at auction houses globally before 2003, according to New York - based database Artnet.

Titled «Traumata: Bourgeois / Kusama,» the exhibition takes place at the auction house's London private - selling gallery, S 2, from late February through mid-April.

Art collectors looking for masterpieces haven't seen many at auction houses this year.

For this show, she photographed art by Richter, Lichtenstein, Ryman, Serra, Martin, and Flavin as it sat at auction houses.

+ Peter Paul Rubens» Lot and His Daughters sold at Christie's this week for $ 58 million dollars, making it the most expensive Old Master painting ever sold at the auction house.

November 11: New York - Warhol's Pop Art is the New Currency On Monday, Men in Her Life (1962), Andy Warhol's multi-painting of Elizabeth Taylor sold for $ 63 million at auction house Phillips, de Pury and Company.

At the auction house's last big contemporary art sale in October, work by German artists accounted for more than 43 % — nearly # 21m — of the sale total.

As the biggest week - long concentration of art events in Europe ended yesterday, dealers at Frieze Art Fair individually reported brisk sales and the tallies at the auction houses almost doubled from last year's October sales.

He was active in pursuing and creating private selling exhibitions at Christie's before these practices became commonplace at auction houses.

Last year they bought the most expensive contemporary lots at both auction houses, paying # 24m for a Roy Lichtenstein at Christie's and # 39m for a Clyfford Still at Sotheby's.

Often it is this notoriety that supersedes content allowing artists like Prince to scrape in near $ 150,000 at auction houses for sarcastically altered, oversized screenshots.

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We hope this solution to save the work of women artists will one day no longer be needed when women are represented in museums and public collections in equal numbers and their sales prices at auction houses are comparable to the sales prices of male artists.

Christie's London Evening Auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art Realises # 132.8 m / $ 207.3 m / $ 165.8 m - The Highest Ever Result for the Category at any Auction House in Europe Yves Klein's Le Rose du bleu sells for # 23.5 M ($ 36.7 M / $ 29.4 M) A new world record for a French post-war artist at auction 4 lots sold above # 10 million / 5 lots sold above $ 10 million

Art on the secondary market is often sold at an auction house.

Christie's Xin Li, far right, fielded bids from a group of new Chinese collectors at the auction house's contemporary sale on May 13.

Three being a trend and all that, let this blog post stand as the official announcement of «human hair» as the hot new craze at auction houses around the globe.

If you can't find a dresser to fit your kitchen, try looking for pieces at an auction house.

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Moreover, the spectrum auctions will be key in keeping the US at the forefront of 5G deployment, according to a joint statement by US House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden and Representative Marsha Blackburn.