Sentences with phrase «few bidding battles»
Accepting the offer would mean a loss of # 8 million on the player but if we accept it would send out a clear signal for clubs interested in other fringe Arsenal stars and that might even lead to a few bidding battles.
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Nevertheless, some exciting battles were fought and a few new market records were set, most notably for Diego Rivera, whose brightly colored scene The Rivals (1931) sold for $ 9.76 million to a telephone bidder working with Conor Jordan, deputy chairman of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's, after just a few minutes of bidding.
Mark Rothko's Saffron (1957), a work that belongs to a select group of brightly coloured canvases Rothko produced in the mid-1950s, just a few months before his oeuvre shifted to a more sombre palette, was the subject of another bidding battle before selling for $ 32,375,000.