Sentences with phrase «in private hands»

It has since remained in private hands and has not been exhibited for over half a century.

If a piece is «truly, truly to die for» and is still in private hands, it is no doubt on someone else's wish list.

One of the benefits of observing auctions is the opportunity see works long held in private hands away from public view.

Many of the booth's artworks have been in private hands for years.

Not to mention the majority of the debt is no longer in private hands anyway.

They also keep properties in private hands and on the tax rolls.

In reality a reserve in private hands is no reserve at all.

The bird that was «too numerous to go extinct» disappeared in a decade, leaving only skins and mounts in museum collections and a few in private hands.

A company may therefore keep all the «common» stock in private hands and offer only preferred stock on the market.

While there are only a couple hundred fuel cell vehicles in private hands now, more are planned.

At present, the archives have fallen short on their mandates to collect and preserve case law databases, which remain primarily in private hands and are frequently stored off shore.

Lastly, there is a considerable amount of cash in private hands waiting to strike.

, and the only one remaining in private hands.

The paintings have been in private hands for twenty - five years.

«Outside of New York, there's more great contemporary art in private hands here than anywhere else, and we'd be fools not to provide a place for it.»

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-...]

That's why it's right to put the East Coast Mainline back in private hands Main From Tony Lodge: Why new rail franchises must not become new railopolies»

In 1973, he announced that the cellist Janos Scholz had donated 1,500 Old Master drawings from his collection, the largest in private hands in the United States.

Some shopkeepers are hesitantly willing to put public money in private hands, but are uneasy about funding the evangelical missions of the salvationists.

«This is, by my estimation, the best easel painting in private hands outside of Mexico, a celebration of indigenous culture,» said August Uribe, Phillips's deputy chairman of the Americas.

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.

To leave roads and railroads, electric and power utilities in private hands ran the risk of private owners «rack - renting» the population, adding to the cost of living and doing business.

Anna Minton's 2009 book, Ground Control, and the 2011 London Assembly Report, Public Life in Private Hands, both highlight an increase in surveillance and control in the public realm as the management of newly designed public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities, resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable».

It makes its final stop in Houston, home to the largest collection of Sargents held in private hands outside of Boston.

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.

The present Tête has a truly mesmerizing aura, and is recognized to be the greatest Modigliani sculpture in private hands.»

Radical Geometry: Latin American Abstract Expressionism accompanies the current show at the Royal Academy of Arts which comprises of over 80 paintings and sculptures chiefly drawn from the Collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, the foremost collection of geometric abstract art from Latin America in private hands.

Inflation - adjusted housing prices in many Canadian cities are double what they were in 1996, except in the vacation market, which hammered Intrawest, now in private hands.

The Treasury sold its last equity interest in AIG last month (though they still own some warrants) so there are 1.5 billion shares in private hands.

It's the only drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist in private hands (in the collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson), and the only one to appear on the market in a century.

In democratic countries generally, the tendency has been for government to operate or closely regulate those activities that function best as monopolies, while leaving others in private hands.

In fact the M16 was so popular that it continued to be raced in private hands as late as 1981 - 10 years after it first appeared on the scene!

Brexiters on the Left fear that a UK vote to Remain would permanently put the railways in private hands.

The US only has a few hundred million guns in private hands.

Local business and racing leaders will renew their call to put NYRA back in private hands at a state Senate hearing on Tuesday in Albany.

He reportedly holds the largest collection of Victoria Crosses in private hands, comprising more than 150 of the medals.

Some paleontologists worry that fossils in private hands could be auctioned off to the highest bidder and disappear from the scientific literature forever.

Douglas Berg, who is a bacterial geneticist and H. pylori specialist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, says that the sequence is «worse than useless» in private hands because the government will not fund a duplicate project.

Suspend or reverse the policies of unfettered «choice» expansion through schemes such as for - profit charters, virtual charters and Corporate Tax Credit / private school vouchers that place public funds in private hands, in a political effort to avoid investing in Florida public schools.

Placing such generic domains in private hands is plainly anti-competitive, allowing already dominant, well - capitalized companies to expand and entrench their market power.

It was a DC comics four - part miniseries, the first look at what his version of Batman was going to look like, and this is the only cover in private hands.»

The Law of Wildlife Conservation prohibits the possession of wild animals in private hands.

Indeed, when Dr. Thomas Kaplan, a natural resources investor now in his mid-fifties, put his Leiden Collection of Dutch Golden Age painting — which features the largest number of Rembrandts in private hands — on view in New York, artists including John Currin, Zeng Fanzhi, Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons were among the wonderstruck visitors.

Previously, Ms. Marsden - Atlass served as the Senior Curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where her work included the landmark exhibitions In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting and Thomas Eakins and His Legacy.

Pollock's abstract «drip painting» «Lucifer» (1947), a capstone of the Anderson Collection and the last great work of its kind in private hands, might fetch more than $ 100 million were it to go on the block in today's overheated auction market.

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.

«It's one of the five best Dubuffets in private hands,» Christophe Van de Weghe, a dealer, said.

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).

This work, the last great sketch by Constable in private hands and in astonishingly fresh condition, clearly illustrates why Constable is considered the father of British Modernism.