Sentences with phrase «high auction estimates»

The Vienna of the past looms large in the popular imagination, with the Hollywood film Woman in Gold bringing Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer to the big screen and high auction estimates for another painting by the artist, Portrait of Gertrud Loew, making headlines in advance of a Sotheby's sale.

Not exact matches

When the watch was announced for consigned auction, the market was unsure what to make of the potential value — some reports pegged a pre-sale estimate at $ 2.5 million, while others predicted a much higher figure.

Sold for just more than twice Gooding & Co.'s high estimate, so expect to see more very nice Gran Sports soon at an auction near you.

This is the second time the Concept S has gone up for sale — in 2015, it was part of RM Sotheby's Driven By Disruption auction, where it failed to sell with a high pre-sale estimate of $ 3 million.

The article reports that it is likely the success of rescue groups in reducing the numbers of dogs needing adoption that has led to an increase in such organizations turning to buying dogs offered at auctions by commercial kennels: «As the number of commercial kennels has decreased, so has the number of shelter animals killed in the United States: A February 2017 estimate put the total for dogs alone at 780,000, a steep drop from estimates for all shelter animals that were as high as 20 million in the 1970s.»

That handily trouncing its high estimate of $ 7 million and also demolished the previous record for a Rivera at auction, which was set when $ 3.08 million was paid for Baile en Tehuantepec (1928), sold by IBM at Sotheby's in New York in May 1995.

That handily trouncing its high estimate of $ 7 million and also demolished the previous record for a Rivera at auction, which was set when $ 3.08 million was paid for

Minutes before that 500 - year - old piece hit the block, a two - year - old Kerry James Marshall painting, Still - Life with Wedding Portrait, went up for sale and drew strong bidding, eventually selling for $ 5.04 million with buyer's premium, a new record for the artist at auction, and a figure well above the $ 1.5 million high estimate the auction house had tagged to the piece.

A 1913 John Singer Sargent of the Grand Canal in Venice, with the San Geremia and the Palazzo Labia visible, painted in oil on his last visit to La Serenissima, flew past its $ 5 million high estimate to a $ 9.09 million finish, the third - highest price at auction for the painter.

«Steve» by Barkley L. Hendricks covers the catalog and is the auction's top - selling lot, selling for $ 365,000 (including fees), a record price for Hendricks and more than double its high estimate.

The vibrant mixed - media painting sold for $ 78,000 ($ 97,500 including fees), more than twice the high estimate and, according to Swann Auction Galleries, a record for the artist.

Estimated at $ 70 million, it will probably set an auction record for the French artist, whose current high is $ 48.8 million.

Eyebrows were raised over the high estimate for Mark Grotjahn's abstract, «Untitled (S III Released to France Face 43.14),» double the artist's current auction high.

Marten's works have been offered at auction on three occasions, and have sold for well above their high estimates.

When Mr. Simchowitz met Parker Ito (whose work sold at a February auction in London for $ 93,594 over a high estimate of $ 25,000), he had a day job painting oil derricks near LAX, Los Angeles County still a surprising source of untapped crude.

The total high estimate range for this year clearly exceeds that of last year as the art market is said to be thriving and the auction staff setting, as Joseph Duveen described them «aggressive estimates».

Selling at $ 23.7 million, it sets a record at auction for Dubuffet and surpasses its high estimate of $ 20 million placed by Christie's.

Her tender and technically innovative acrylic - and transfer - on - paper scene of embracing lovers sold for $ 1.1 million after competition among about six bidders, a high for the artist at auction and more than three times the high estimate of $ 300,000.

The painting is estimated to sell for in excess of $ 150 million in Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 14 May 2018 — the highest estimate ever placed on a work of art at auction.

[9] In 2009, Night Playground (1997 — 98), a densely painted landscape painting being sold by Joel Mallin, a New York collector, went for $ 5 million at a Christie's auction in London, well above its high estimate of $ 3 million.

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At Bonhams» Impressionist & Modern Art Auction in New York on May 12, Seated Old Man set a record for a work on paper by the artist when it sold for $ 425,000, over four times its high estimate.

This figure was more than four times the high estimate and almost trebled the previous world auction record for the artist, set in November 2016.

There'll be a lot of Andy Warhol's artwork at Bonhams «auction of Post-War And Contemporary Prints & Multiples in New York on Monday, May 11 (starting at 1 PM), but Wayne Thiebaud's Candy Apples from 1987 (Lot 142) will be the highest priced lot with estimated price at $ 40,000 — $ 50,000.

When the auction houses set estimates that buyers considered too high, prospective bidders just sat on their hands.

At this auction, the highest estimated price has been put on Rodney Graham's Main Street Tree from 2006.

The auction was led by Jean Dubuffet's Visiteur au Chapeau Bleu (Visitor with a Blue Hat), which exceeded its high estimate, selling for # 4,813,000.

This was Mr. Ostrowski's auction debut, and the piece's high pre-sale estimate was just # 15,000 ($ 25,000).

The most striking sale of the mid-season auctions in New York was the tripling of the high estimate (and doubling of the artist's record) for Mark Bradford's Curtis.

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.

A large, Qianlong - period Chinese Export «Tobacco Leaf» dinner service set a new auction record for a dinner service when it realised $ 1,152,500, almost four times its high estimate.

Ms. Paulson described the auction as «fantastic,» noting that 27 of the 51 lots that sold went above the high estimate.

Before bids began, the mural - sized painting was positioned to reach a record result with the estimate set at approximately $ 8.3 million — $ 11 million, which far exceeded Bradford's previous auction high mark.

The auction was extremely successful with almost 84 percent of the 67 offered lots selling for almost $ 47 million, extremely close to the pre-sale high estimate.

Another work celebrating the Rockefellers» love of nature, Shore Birds by Morris Cole Graves, easily surpassed its high estimate to create a new auction record for the artist at $ 408,500.

Although not as shocking or provoking as Red But Close - Up, Red But (Distance) did achieve a significant hammer price of $ 330,000, selling for 65 % over the high estimate at Sotheby's auction house in New York in 2000.

This season offers the second highest, pre-sale low estimate for any Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Auction ever to take place in Europe at # 95million (64 lots).

This is the highest estimate ever placed on a work of art at auction [1].

World auction records were also set for Gordon Matta - Clark (1943 - 1978), Lot 21, «Bronx Floors: Threshole,» 1972, $ 222,500; Matthew Barney (b. 1967), Lot 5, «Cremaster 4,» 1994 - 5, $ 387,500, more than double its high estimate; Mariko Mori (b. 1967), Lot 6, «Red Light,» 1994, one of an edition of three, $ 101,500, well over its high estimate of $ 60,000; Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Lot 35, «Untitled (Fool),» 1990, $ 420,500, seven times its high estimate; John Currin (b. 1962), Lot 2, «Untitled,» 1990, $ 46,000; Jeff Koons (b. 1955), Lot 14, «Buster Keaton,» 1988, a large polychrome wood sculpture, one of an edition of three, $ 409,500; Andreas Gursky (b. 1955), Lot 11, «Atlanta,» 1996, a large Cibachrome print from an edition of six, $ 90,500; and Richard Serra (b. 1939), Lot 22, «Sign Board,» 1969, $ 431,500.

The lot's high estimate had been $ 400,000 and this auction's price set a world auction record for Gober that previously had been $ 552,500, set last November at Christie's.

Already a multimillionaire (his wealth has been estimated around $ 29 million), he achieved a string of records, including the highest price at auction for a single photographic image (for Rhein II which sold for USD $ 4,338,500 at Christie's in 2011).

It fetched $ 4.4 million, an auction high for the artist (the upper estimate was $ 700,000).

The auction total of $ 62,007,700 was at the high end of the pre-sale estimates that ranged from a low of $ 50,320,000 to a high of $ 63,550,000.

Other highlights of this auction include Lot 20, «Duridium,» a 26 - by - 36 inch magna on canvas, dated 1964, by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997), estimated at $ 600,000 to $ 800,000, which sold for $ 607,500; Lot 21, «Ileana Sonnabend,» a 1963 metallic paint on canvas, 77 3/4 - by -128-inch work by Frank Stella (b. 1936) that has a high estimate of $ 600,000, and which sold for $ 684,500; Lot 29,» Evening in the Studio,» a monumental painting that out - Rubens Rubens by Lucian Freud and has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,500,000, and which sold for only $ 2,422,500; Lot 30, «Lying Figure,» a large, interesting composition by Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 2,500,000 and is starker than his more painterly small works, and which was passed at $ 1,600,000; Lot 35, «Bedouin (Personage Gris et Rougeatre),» a great Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) painting that is conservatively estimated at $ 700,000 to $ 900,000 and which sold for $ 992,500; and Lot 46, «Aux Bons Principes,» a more colorful but not as strong Dubuffet that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,000,000, and which sold for $ 2,202,500; and Lot 63, an untitled, large painting by Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) that has a mysterious, luminous and mystical sense of a great mountainscape by the Sung Dynasty masters of China and has a conservative high estimate of $ 300,000, and which was passed at $ 150,000.

This auction, which was very successful, slightly exceeding its pre-sale high - estimate total of $ 10,400,000 and selling 45 of the 47 offered works, is no exception to the rule with a few very fine works of art and some that may not stand the test of time.

The pre-sale high estimate for the auction was $ 79,750,000.

It had a high estimate of $ 1.5 million, considerably more than the artist's previous auction record of $ 882,500 set at Christie's in June, 1998.

When the mid-season auction was over, the lot had sold for nearly four times the high estimate to make # 112,500 with fees.

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) has several lots in the auction but is best featured in a large portrait of her by Chuck Close (b. 1940), Lot 10, «Cindy II,» a 72 by 60 - inch oil on canvas, executed in 1988, that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 800,000.

The auction was extremely successful setting auction records for 18 artists and nicely exceeding its pre-sale high estimate of $ 12.9 million.