Sentences with phrase «hands in a private sale»

Usually these cars change hands in a private sale, so this is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity that is sure to draw bidders from the world over.

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Odimo.com handed over the domain to an online jewelry retailer, Ice.com, in a private sale for one of the priciest domain - name swaps of all time.

Read on to discover some new online shopping platforms that made their debut in recent months, offering discounts, private sales and second - hand designer goods.

The perfectly legitimate, if not strictly tasteful, sale went mostly unremarked in the cacophony surrounding the record - breaking hammer on «Salvator Mundi,» purportedly the last Leonardo in private hands, the same night.

And perhaps not coincidentally — given how extensively the artist is already being marketed at the moment — Sotheby's has announced that its Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale in December will include Rome, from Mount Aventine (1836), one of only a handful of major works by Turner currently in private hands.

Highlights of the Evening Sale include the full - scale six - foot «sketch» for View on the Stour near Dedham, circa 1821 - 22, by John Constable, R.A. (1776 - 1837), the last great six - foot sketch in private hands (estimate on request), and Golden Hours, 1864, by Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830 — 1896), a celebration of youth, beauty, and love, which is offered at auction for the first time in 100 years (estimate: # 3 - 5 million).

The sale is being lead by J.M.W. Turner's Rome, from Mount Aventine, one of the last great masterpieces of British art left in private hands and one of the -LSB-...]

Without question the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 21st century, this singular example of a painting by da Vinci in private hands will be offered as a special lot in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 November at Christie's in New York.

He began the bidding at $ 70 million and quickly chandelier bid up to $ 100 million, after which he got a bid of $ 110 million from international private sales head Alexis Ashot, phone in hand.

History was made at Christie's postwar and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday night, when Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500), believed to be the last painting by Leonardo da Vinci in private hands, sold for $ 450.3 million, making it the most expensive art market transaction of all time.

Jessie Fertig, Head of the Evening Sale, remarked on the «extraordinary interest in collections, which featured many works that had long been held in private hands», and also underlined the extraordinarily international spread of bidding on the night.

Only nine of the remaining paintings are in private hands, which has added to the excitement around this particular sale.

So why is Salvator Mundi the last Leonardo Da Vinci painting in private hands up for sale in a Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Ssale in a Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening SaleSale?

The use of real estate practitioners in the sale of properties owned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs won't change, even though the agency is handing over its property management function to a private company, Ocwen Financial Corp. of West Palm Beach, Fla..

Boulder Net Lease Funds in Northbrook, Ill., a private equity firm that tracks net - lease sales activity, reports 15,500 net - lease properties changed hands in the first half of 2008, down nearly 14 % over the same period last year.