Sentences with phrase «come to auction achieved»

Eleven years later, the first of Eric Clapton's Richters to come to auction achieved a world - record price for the artist when it realised # 21.3 million.

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Powered by an art market that seems to have achieved nuclear fission — with Christie's record half - billion - dollar auction fresh in memory — and coming on the heels of the Venice Biennale's stellar opening, the fair gathered a city's worth of megacollectors (the Broads, the Horts, the Brants, the Rubells), celebrities (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kanye West, Cate Blanchett), and curators (the New Museum's Massimiliano Gioni, L.A. MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch, the Whitney's Scott Rothkopf).