Sentences with phrase «auction room»

The main auction room was full and there were some very high prices at sale.

An obvious absence of Jeff Koons from the sales reports is rather interesting, making us think — does he perform so brilliantly in auction room alone, or is he saving his pieces for it?

Don't be discouraged when sourcing salvaged wood — even when damaged, wood can often be restored to its former glory, so you can make the most of auction room acquisitions or junk - shop finds.

Twenty - eight of the lots exceeded their high estimate and auction records were set for 15 artists and the jam - packed auction room burst into applause several times and at the end of the sale.

The global interest in a work that has been hailed as the greatest artistic rediscovery of the last 100 years saw a rapt audience of nearly 1,000 art collectors, dealers, advisors, journalists and onlookers packed into the main auction room at Rockefeller Center, with many thousands more tuning in via a live stream.

In The Independent, Charles Darwent reports that on Tuesday, a sale of urban art will be held at the Bond Street auction rooms of Bonhams.

The company, with auction rooms in New York and London, plus offices in eight other cities, has moved its European headquarters from Victoria, near one of London's main railroad stations, to a 73,000 - square - foot building at 30 Berkeley Square, in the heart of the wealthy Mayfair district.

In the main auction room where the sale will take place, a ’55 Mercedes - Benz 300SL «Gullwing» waits patiently for a new owner, while the black 1972 300SEL 6.3 once owned by Steve McQueen broods.

Held at The Wing auction room, Sunday's sale saw over 300 Porsche enthusiasts assemble at Silverstone Circuit to bid on nearly sixty high - quality classic and modern sports cars and their related automobilia.

Bring the completed evaluation form to the Silent Auction room and exchange it for a door prize ticket.

When Sotheby's closed its West London saleroom in Olympia in 2007, some of the slack was taken up by a new kind of auction room around the corner at 25 Blythe Road.

From the posh auction rooms of New York, London and Hong Kong, to Chinese Tibet and war - torn Afghanistan, ArtAsiaPacific's panoramic lens never stops moving.

The exhibition, which takes place in two sites, marks the first large scale site - specific work to be produced at the former auction room at 14/15 Queen Street in Scarborough, now Crescent Artspace.

Looking at the sales reports, most of the young and known stars» pieces are priced between $ 100,000 and a million, enabling collectors to purchase art on the rise, but also make safe investments, without the million - dollars risks implied when we talk of auction room sales.

Richard Taittinger strategically inaugurated his first exhibition during the Armory Show, presenting the Chinese artist DING Yi whose best works fetch between $ 500,000 and $ 2 million in Beijing and Hong Kong auction rooms.

Kourtney's collection of original Pierre Jeanneret chairs were sourced from several auction rooms and flea markets, with such a big family it was hard to get a set big enough.

Francis Outred, International Director and Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Christie's Europe: One of the most packed auction rooms I have ever seen witnessed a landmark October auction series, which, for the first time, approaches the importance of our February and June auctions.

The debut show at S 2, opposite the back entrance of the company's New Bond Street auction rooms, will open on Oct. 10, Sotheby's said last night in an emailed statement.

We're in awe of her beautiful dining room — after a worldwide search of auction rooms and flea markets from Paris to LA, Kourt now has an enviable collection of Pierre Jeanneret chairs, which surround her large dining table.

«For such an important car to come to the market, it created interest from around the world and was in the end sold to a delighted German buyer, followed by a round of applause in the auction room,» said Chris Routledge, Managing Partner at Coys, of the sale.

A bid comes in by phone then another from the left of the auction room.

The auction room was bursting at the seams.

Ms. Lévy and Mr. Mnuchin became a familiar presence in the auction room, where they sat side by side.

Beyond the auction room, Léger's unique style will be on view in a number of museum shows this year.

«The auction room, as anyone knows, is an excellent medium for sustaining fictional price levels, because the public imagines that auction prices are necessarily real prices.»

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The sale is being staged by the Auction Room, which was formed earlier this year by Sotheby's former managing director of Europe, George Bailey, and is directed by Janet Rady, an independent expert in Middle Eastern art.

Art Radar reports from the auction room of Sotheby's evening sale of Contemporary Asian Art on October 3, 2011.

«I wanted to create a destination to best see art outside of the auction room.»

At a moment when artworks of bullying size and aggressiveness dominate many galleries, art fairs and auction rooms, Melchi works at intimate scale with no sense of abbreviation or mutedness.

REPORT FROM THE AUCTION ROOM Big name Chinese and Indian artists and several premium lot artworks failed to sell at Sotheby's October 2008 evening sale of contemporary and modern Asian art but the sale pointed to a new trend... Continue reading →

For the past few years, auction rooms in London, New York and Hong Kong have crackled with fierce interest in Chinese contemporary paintings as prices broke record after record.

But if we disregard the auction room success of oils on canvas, and look at painting as just a medium, it becomes clear that it's actually far from dead.

Interestingly, big names perform on fairs as well as in an auction room, so if a gallery snatches, say, a Warhol, it's almost a guaranteed sale.

The sculptor's Month Of May (1963)- made from steel and aluminium - was on display as part of The New Situation: Art in London in the Sixties exhibition at Sotheby's auction rooms in September.

However, when combined with the auction room, which Sotheby's and eBay are doing, it may look more appealing to even traditional collectors.

The most expensive works that found buyers came at a price above $ 5 million dollars, while pieces could be bought for as much as $ 10,000, with Basquiat confirming his supremacy in prices, in the dealer's market, as in the auction room.

Shaping opinion beyond the auction rooms, there was the recreated mental asylum interspersed with Dubuffet paintings on the Helly Nahmad stand at Frieze Masters last year; an important exhibition of his early work currently at the Acquavella Gallery in New York, and a prestigious retrospective exhibition now at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland.

The Margate - born artist was in the packed auction room to see My Bed fetch a record amount for her work.

A relative newcomer to the auction rooms, the arrival of one her most significant works, a 15 ft fibreglass sleeping elephant covered in bindi beads, stirred as much expectation as the estimate, set at a whopping # 700,000.

The ferocious currents of the art market have always been visible enough in the auction rooms.

The fixed objective is to develop the first decentralized network dedicated to real - time management of any auction in the world, either online or in the auctioning room.

This will be the world's first decentralized network for real - time management of any auction in the world, both online as well as in the auctioning room.

Buyers who attended the event were able to see all the bids on large screens at the front of the auction room, while remote bidders used computers to participate.

They have a computer set up for each bidder in the auction room.

To make sure the auction room is full, HREA markets its properties and tracks the results as auction dates approaches.

«People who want to renovate a former public building into a modern residential home may scoop a bargain if what they want does not sell well in the auction room,» said a spokeswoman.

«In the excitement of the auction room, it's very easy to get carried away, so it's important that you discipline yourself to only bid up to your maximum.»