Sentences with phrase «bidding on an abstract painting»
At Sotheby's last week there was the unusual sight of Old Master dealer Johnny van Haeften bidding on an abstract painting.
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LONDON — Before a standing - room crowd at Christie's here last month, the bidding opened on an abstract painting filled with black scratching, «Burrito» scrawled across the top in bright yellow.
The abstract paintings by China - born, Paris - based Zao (1921 --RRB- sparked a frenzy of bidding each time they came on the block, often pushing prices to several times estimates at Christie's International's auction of modern and contemporary Asian art.
Early in the Sotheby's sale, an abstract composition in bright colors painted in 1963 by Hans Hofmann was let go by the auctioneer Tobias Meyer on a single $ 4 million bid, 20 percent below the low estimate.
«The abstract paintings by China - born, Paris - based Zao (1921 --RRB- sparked a frenzy of bidding each time they came on the block, often push...