Sentences with phrase «auction house said»

A rare ancient Chinese dish was auctioned off in Hong Kong for over $ 30 million, Sotheby's auction house said Tuesday.

A spokesman for the auction house said that art from the collection will go on display at Sotheby's in Los Angeles on Thursday for one day.

«In the Sun» by American impressionist painter Childe Hassam will be sold at Sotheby's on May 17 as part of its American Art sale for an estimated $ 1.5 million to $ 2.5 million, the auction house said Thursday.

In a press release, the auction house said: «Weschler's is proud to auction these works in the city where many of the artists represented were educated and flourished.

The painting had been loan to the White House in Washington from September 2002 to December 2008, and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the auction house said.

Buyers hailed from 20 different countries, the auction house said.

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The auction house said it has discovered a previously unknown Rothko painting, which it expects to sell for at least $ 18 million on May 11 in New York.

November 15, 2013 NEW YORK — Fossils of two dinosaurs found in Montana and locked eternally in a fierce death match could fetch a potential record $ 9 million when they are sold in New York next week, the Bonhams auction house said on Thursday.

The auction house said in a release that they expect the notebook to be purchased for more than a million dollars, and a portion of sale will go to charity.

The auction house said the value of a designer handbag is determined by a number of factors, including size, style, and condition.

It has, the auction house says «rescinded the sale and reimbursed the client in full».

Not exact matches

The parent of the Columbia House music and DVD clubs said Monday it plans to sell its Columbia House DVD Club business, which sells recorded movies and TV series directly to consumers, through a bankruptcy auction.

Talenia Phua Gajardo, CEO of Luxglove, says she's positioned her luxury online marketplace in between auction houses and eBay.

A spokeswoman for Christie's, the auction house that sold «Salvator Mundi,» said it did not comment on the identities of any buyers or sellers without their permission.

(Howard Soll, of Regency - Superior auction house, says the ball could fetch nearly $ 1 million at auction.)

It was from the head of a New York auction house, saying she had a curious item: a big bronze bull with a goddess attached.

News, photos, mock California auction house Profiles in History said the slippers are believed to have been worn by Judy Garland's Dorothy when she clicks her heels to return

MALIBU, California — «We're just up the road,» says Jakob Greisen, car specialist and Vice President — Head of U.S. Motoring for Bonhams auction house.

The value of an agent comes pre-ordained, as they say to their clients, «We're going to make sure that we explain the business, we're going to make sure that we conduct the auction properly, we're going to make sure we get offers from all the major houses.»

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.

At Skinner's auction house in Boston, Colleene Fesko knew she'd scratched the surface of something big when she found herself returning phone calls to answering machines that say «Meow, and thanks for calling.»

Mary O'Connor Shaver, coalition treasurer, said a petition to ban dog auctions in the state needs 120,700 signatures by Dec. 1 to be considered by the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate and to have the issue placed on the November 2011 ballot.

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The bazaar is literally the in - game auction house where players can offer up their equipment and items for an asking price and other players can purchase them for said price.

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).

«Any reputable gallery or auction house is going to check those databases before they consign or accept consignments,» she says.

«In general, I think resale royalties are a pretty good idea,» said painter Chuck Close, who, with a number of other artists, filed a class - action lawsuit against the auction houses this past October.

«There is the inherent conflict of interest,» said Edward Dolman, the chairman and chief executive of Phillips auction house, which is not pursuing artist management.

Even Brett Gorvy, who just left Christie's after 23 years to join forces with the dealer Dominique Lévy — this year Ms. Levy took on the painter Pat Steir, 74, and the Korean sculptor Lee Seung - taek, 84 — said that what galleries do for artists can not be replicated by an auction house.

And many dealers say auction houses will not be able to serve artists and their legacies the way galleries do.

But in an email, she said felt she could play a role, not directly connected to auction - house sales, to make Sotheby's more sought after as a resource for major living artists.

Shiner, who has been at the helm of the Warhol Museum since 2008, has described the move from museum to auction house as a «natural transition»: «There's much more porosity in the art world now between the market, the collector base, galleries and the nonprofit world of museums,» he said.

Without prompting, Doig refers to the sale, saying «the way auction houses write about paintings as masterpieces seems such an absurd way to talk about a contemporary work of art.

The gallery said an unidentified donor had agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to Christie's auction house to release the work.

Reached by email, he said he was friend's with the purchaser and provided his name, which I was able to confirm by cross checking the limited information provided by the auction house with an obituary published in the Los Angeles Times.

Man Tries to Sell Stolen Sean Scully Painting Through Auction House Who Alerted the Painter: According to the NYPost, «Arturo Rucci, 50, ripped off Sean Scully's painting — valued at $ 400 - 600,000 — and tried selling it last month, cops said.»

«With many of these wide - range estimates,» he said, «the auction house might as well have said, «Fuck me, we haven't got a clue what it's worth in this economy.

On May 14, in its important evening sale of contemporary art, Alex Rotter, co-head of Sotheby's contemporary art department worldwide, said his auction house would offer works that «give everyone an idea of what the collection is.»

And that observation reminds us again that Jerry Saltz actually does have something to say until he remembers that all modern ills stem from art sales and he's right back attacking the auction houses and the market.

Between May 8 and 12, 2016, as many as nine auction sales took place at three of the biggest houses selling Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary artworks today and, to say the very least, it was an exciting time.

The auction house has also announced its first sale of modern and contemporary African art, to be held in its London saleroom next month (16 May), saying there had been «exponential increase in market demand» for this field over the last decade.

In post-sale comments, Diana D. Brooks, the president and CEO of Sotheby's, said the auction house was «delighted» with the results and Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer, said that the auction was «very solid.»

Because of the decline in auction houses guarantees, said Neal Meltzer, a New York art adviser, «a lot of top - quality material has shifted to the dealers.»

«Pre-recession, we found that buyers had more confidence to spend money,» says Laura King Pfaff, chairman of Bonhams Auctions, which has houses in London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles and conducts about 400 auctions each year.

Some say 1960; others, like Christie's auction house, say 1970; while the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York says 1977; and the London Institute of Contemporary Art (established 1947) champions a start date of 1947.

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.

«Seeing his work at the Rubells gave collectors confidence,» said Benjamin Godsill, a former curator at the New Museum in New York who is now a contemporary art expert at Phillips, the auction house.

Some analysts said they see an increasing emphasis on private sales among auction houses seeking to improve their margins, though Christie's private sales were down 33 percent for the first half of last year.

«Greece has become an established stop on a new European grand tour each June,» said Robert Manley, international director of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's auction house in New York, who attended the events.