Sentences with phrase «high estimate of»

Siri: That seems like a very high estimate of remaining fossil fuels; I thought we are facing «peak oil».

The reason I found this scale inadequate is that I could take a high estimate of ECS, but not be troubled by the consequences, even if the «impacts» implied by ECS are severe (abandoning London, for instance).

That was before the explosion in Doig's market caused by a bidding war in February of 2007 where the artist's White Canoe made # 5.7 m against a pre-sale high estimate of # 1.2 m.

German artist David Ostrowski achieved a personal auction record of $ 281,000 for his 2012 piece, «F (Between Two Ferns),» four times its high estimate of $ 70,000.

Winter Solstice 2012 Dinner Party (2009) went for $ 670,000 against a high estimate of $ 150,000 as the first lot in the sale.

A third record, also set in the Gaffé sale, was for a sculpture by Pablo Picasso, when a bronze of his famous Tete de femme (Fernande) went for $ 4,956,000, well over its high estimate of $ 3.5 million.

It more than doubled its high estimate of $ 78,200 to reach a price much higher than any previously paid for this artist's work.

A surprising lot was Mark Grotjahn «s Untitled Butterfly selling for # 836,450 — almost three times its high estimate of # 300,000.

The sale set 17 records for artists, including Ethiopian Julie Mehretu, whose iconic painting Untitled 1 sold for $ US1, 022,500 dollars, a new record for the artist and well over the high estimate of $ US600,000 - 800, 000.

Marcel Broodthaers «Surface de moules (avec sac)(Surface of mussels (with bag)-RRB- achieved # 433,250 — nearly double the high estimate of # 220,000.

The bidding soon surged past the high estimate of $ 3 million and ended light years from the high estimate that Christie's in 2013 placed on the work — $ 1,200.

The evening brought $ 158.7 million, topping a high estimate of $ 121 million.

Among the stars: a 1970 abstract canvas by Mark Rothko of intense blues and greens that brought nearly $ 40 million, twice its high estimate, and several paintings and drawings by Richard Diebenkorn, including «Ocean Park No. 89,» which sold for $ 9.6 million, below its high estimate of $ 12 million.

A key work in the collection, Mahmoud Said's The Whirling Dervishes sold for $ 2,546,500, far exceeding its high estimate of $ 400,000 — and establishing a new world auction record for the artist.

We've mentioned Brent Wadden's Alignment (13) that doubled its high estimate and had the highest difference between hammer price and high estimate of the auction.

The Warhol work is one of 22 images of Elvis Presley dressed as a cowboy, and actually fell short of its high estimate of $ 50m.

Christie's has had tough time with a number of its recent Impressionist and Modern sales but this May, the auction house just announced, it will be selling four works (three Renoirs and a Monet water lily painting) with a combined high estimate of $ 60m.

The Wool ignited a fierce and drawn - out bidding battle in the salesroom before finally selling to New York's Andrew Fabricant of Richard Gray Gallery for a sizzling # 9.1 million (# 10.4 million with fees), well above the high estimate of # 6.2 million.

In 2012, Elegy to the Spanish Republic # 122 (1972) sold for $ 3.7 million at Sotheby's New York after a high estimate of $ 2.8 million.

The significantly larger and more ambitious two - part Richter abstraction, Gelbgrün (Yellow - Green)(1982)-- which exhibited at documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, that same year, as well as in the artist's acclaimed «Panorama» retrospective at Tate Modern in 2011 — sold to a telephone bidder for # 9.5 million, near its high estimate of # 10 million, and came to # 10.8 million with fees.

Tuesday's Postwar and Contemporary Evening Sale at Christie's brought in $ 388.5 million, well over its high estimate of $ 329 million and a record for any auction of its kind.

Belgian video artist David Claerbout's The Algiers Section of a Happy Moment (2008), focused on a soccer match on the roof of a building in the kasbah, brought $ 197,500 against a high estimate of just $ 57,500.

The high estimate of $ 25.2 million was quickly surpassed and the established price is a new benchmark for a small - scale triptych by the artist at $ 45.400.274.

«Figure Writing Reflected in Mirror,» a 1976 canvas depicting a male figure thought to be the artist's lover George Dyer, was the other top seller at $ 44.8 million, over its high estimate of $ 40 million.

Five bidders tried to buy the large, dense painting, which brought $ 4.7 million, far above its high estimate of $ 3.5 million.

The total was just below the house's high estimate of $ 394.1 million.

Christopher Wool's Apocalypse Now (1988) outdid its high estimate of $ 20 million to ring up at $ 26.5 million, far surpassing the previous Wool record of $ 7.8 million, set at Christie's London in 2012.

Five bidders sought the work, which finally sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for $ 1.8 million, more than twice its high estimate of $ 800,000.

A large Francis Bacon painting, Study for Portrait, which was estimated at $ 18 - 25 million, was withdrawn by the seller at the last minute after a Bacon canvas with a high estimate of $ 40 million failed to generate any bids at Sotheby's the night before.

The price surpassed the high estimate of and set an auction record for the French artist.

Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 painting, «L'Homme Est en Mer (The Man Is at Sea)» fetched 16.9 million pounds, more than doubling the high estimate of 8 million pounds.

A painting by David Ostrowski, born in 1981, also had a solid result, selling for $ 119,000, just under its high estimate of $ 120,000.

The top lot at Sotheby's sale, Camille Pissarro's 1897 view of Paris's Montmartre on a spring morning, fetched 19.7 million pounds, almost doubling its presale high estimate of 10 million pounds.

«Untitled,» a 5.7 foot - tall blue and purple oil painting created in 1970, the year the artist died, sold yesterday in New York for $ 39.9 million, almost double its high estimate of $ 20 million.

Two works by Jean - Michel Basquiat including a 1983 bright red and yellow painting of a torso with a high estimate of $ 6 million, failed to sell.

Christie's had given it a high estimate of $ 12,000.

Gerhard Richter's blazing red «Abstraktes Bild» from 1991 sold for $ 21.4 million, or just over its high estimate of $ 20 million.

The abstract work painted in 1963 carried a pre-sale high estimate of HK$ 40 million according to Christie's live auction website.

On Friday, the 1982 work «Hannibal» — starring the artist's signature skull and crown surrounded by scribbles on orange background — was chased by at least seven bidders to reach 10.6 million pounds ($ 13.2 million) at Sotheby's, more than double its presale high estimate of 4.5 million pounds.

Chased by five bidders, Francis Bacon's 1970 «Two Studies for a Self - Portrait» fetched $ 34.9 million, surpassing the high estimate of $ 30 million.

Neither did the artist's «Little Electric Chair,» a paint and silkscreen ink on canvas with a high estimate of $ 9.5 million.

The group tallied $ 11.8 million, surpassing its high estimate of $ 6.6 million.

A surprise also came with Andreas Meininger's hazy skyline 42nd Street, as Viewed from Weehawken, which sold for over three times its high estimate of $ 5,000 - $ 7,000 for a total of $ 27,500.

A Tiffany clock given to Reagan by Frank Sinatra on the occasion of his first inauguration, which carried a high estimate of $ 10,000.

But in the same auction at Christie's five days after the Biennial opening, where Taylor's painting set a record, a painting by Hughes also sailed past its high estimate of $ 7,000, selling for $ 40,000.

High points included bidding for Mark Bradford's 2013 painting «Biting the Book» that sold for 2.5 million pounds, surpassing its high estimate of 1.5 million pounds and setting an auction record for the American artist.

The auction — which exceeded its high estimate of $ 120 million and sold 100 percent of its lots — was the first of three that Sotheby's will conduct over several days for the estate, which consigned close to 2,000 items.

Early in the sale, Krugier's 1942 painting by Picasso, «Nus masculins (Les trois ages de l'homme),» sold for 1.6 million pounds, above the high estimate of 700,000 pounds.

A blue portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis fetched $ 1.7 million, just under its high estimate of $ 2 million.

A world auction record was also established for Agnes Martin, whose 1965 canvas Orange Grove sold for $ 10,693,000 — exceeding its high estimate of $ 8,500,000.