Sentences with phrase «auction house helped»

The endless stream of pictures that passed through the auction house helped her develop a calculus of worth.

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A charity auction was held at the Legends of Football ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel and helped towards the remarkable total of funds raised, # 435,276, on behalf of Nordoff Robbins.

Matthew Haley, head of rare books and manuscripts at the Bonhams auction house in London, said that news of rare books moves faster and wider than ever before and that this is driving up prices at the high end of the book market, while Internet shopping was helping the lower end.

Blogged longtime friend Andrew Kirschner, «Sam helped me to knock out [convicted dogfighter] Michael Vick's television show sponsors with Howard Stern, drew photos of Bart Simpson for me to auction off to benefit local animal rescues, and invited me to his house on many occasions when I visited California.

-- Donations to dozens of local organizations with a focus on groups that help children and the environment including: Emily Brydon Youth Foundation, Wildsight, The Elk River Alliance, Fernie Family Housing Society, Feel Good Fernie, Summer Socials Committe, Fernie Colour Crawl, FMBC High Roller Event, Parkinson's Superwalk Event, Fernie Lions Club — Annual Auction, Elk Valley Society — Children Summer Program, FAST — Van Level 1 Sponsor, Fernie Museum, Fernie Nordic Society and the Fernie Film Festival.

As O'Brien said the system will help combat RMT companies and players can trade gems and gold via a player - to - player Trading Post (Guild Wars 2's version of the auction house).

In addition to bringing in Amy Cappellazzo's art advisory business last year, Sotheby's recently acquired Orion Analytical, the art - authentication firm; the Mei Moses Art Indices, which monitor the auction business; and hired Christy MacLear, the chief executive of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, to help the auction house expand its advisory services for living artists and for artists» estates and foundations.

In January, Sotheby's acquired the artificial intelligence firm Thread Genius, which helps identify collectors» interests, and the auction house plans to continue expanding its digital reach.

In 2016, he engineered the acquisition of the high - powered advisory firm Art Agency, Partners, for $ 50 million in cash, which has likely helped to grow the house's work in private sales, once the province of dealers and now an increasingly important source of revenue for auction companies.

The proceeds of this auction (the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London on 30 June) will help to fund a wing to house a number of James Turrell works.

Christy MacLear, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's chief executive, has recently been hired by Sotheby's to guide the auction house's advisory services in helping artists to manage their careers, estates, and foundations — a role typically assumed by an artist's gallery, writes Robin Pogrebin of the New York Times.

At least 10 works were backed by such guarantees, helping the auction house tally $ 111.2 million, up 66 percent from a year ago.

Renfrew will be returning to Bonhams where he worked for seven years and helped set up the auction house's first London Contemporary Asian Art sale in 2006.

When actor Ben Stiller approached David Zwirner to help him raise money for Haiti through a charity auction, the art dealer proposed an evening sale at one of the big auction houses.

The London sale nights weren't exactly studded with masterpieces, but the presence of desirable paintings by international names like Gerhard Richter and Cy Twombly helped the two auction houses raise 240.6 million pounds, or about $ 367 million.

The auction house also secured the collection of Steven and Ann Ames, New York arts patrons, for its Contemporary sale Thursday evening — albeit with the help of a $ 100 million guarantee.