Not exact matches
Lazard always plays spectacularly — possibly because as an aggressive
bidder he
more often needs to conjure an extra trick out of nowhere than to
come up with a safety play that insures a comfortable contract.
That way when it
comes to selling the
bidders will have to pay
more.
The best lesson in really using and trusting your eye
came when the tremendous show of Michelangelo drawings opened at the Met just days before Christie's auctioned off «a brand - new» Leonardo da Vinci for
more than $ 450 million to an anonymous phone
bidder.
After a work by Wolfgang Tillmans, Greifbar 26 (2014), went to an online
bidder at # 548,750 ($ 719,600), and a Howard Hodgkin saw an online
bidder come in right under the hammer and force one
more bid from Branczik, Barker exclaimed, «Online bidding, it's the way of the future!»
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.