Sentences with phrase «of telephone bidders»

Alexander Calder's The Plow, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.

, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.

Not exact matches

[2] A 1964 Ferrari 250 LM was auctioned off by Sotheby's in 2013 for a price of $ 14.3 million to an undisclosed telephone bidder.

Nevertheless, some exciting battles were fought and a few new market records were set, most notably for Diego Rivera, whose brightly colored scene The Rivals (1931) sold for $ 9.76 million to a telephone bidder working with Conor Jordan, deputy chairman of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's, after just a few minutes of bidding.

(1931) sold for $ 9.76 million to a telephone bidder working with Conor Jordan, deputy chairman of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's, after just a few minutes of bidding.

Both works sold toward the low end of their estimates to telephone bidders, for $ 17 million and $ 17.2 million.

Amedeo Modigliani's swan - necked beauty, «Jeanne Hebuterne (au chapeau),» featuring his muse and common - law wife, took the resale trophy as it sold to yet another telephone bidder for just over $ 42 million against the estimate of $ 25 — 34 million.

The painting was purchased by a telephone bidder and well surpassed the estimated sale of at least # 35 (or $ 48.3 million) expected by Sotheby's.

The top end of the Richter market had its wobbles last year, but «Eisberg,» owned by the same European collector since 1983 and offered without a guarantee, attracted competition from four telephone bidders, selling for # 17.7 million to a buyer represented by Shu Zheng, a Sotheby's staff member based in London who works with collectors in Asia.

At Christie's, the market for the Nigerian - born Los Angeles artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose limited output of new works is exclusively being bought by museums, reached a new level when her 2012 mixed - media standing figure study of a young girl, «The Beautyful Ones» was pushed by six telephone bidders to # 2.5 million.

Three contenders — Mr. Deitch, an unidentified telephone bidder and Kadee Robbins, the director of Michael Werner Gallery in London — went after «Composition (Passage: East / West),» a 1968 painting of primitive figures and abstract signs by A. R. Penck.

After a bid of $ 120,000, a bidder on the telephone tried to bid $ 125,000, a small increment but one that is often acceptable.

At one point during the offering of Lot 12, for example, an ink drawing by Charles Ray (b. 1953), a telephone bidder jumped from $ 300,000 to $ 320,000, leading Mr. Burge to say, «I like that.»

«Drift of Summer,» a 1965 white abstract grid painting by Agnes Martin sold to a telephone bidder for $ 1.4 million, more than double her previous auction record that was set in 1996.

Their latest auction had hundreds of bidders in the salesroom, on the telephone and online.

But things picked up by the time the first of the two Basquiats, Self - Portrait (1981), hit the block and faced ten bidders on the telephones and several in the room.

One of his self - portraits from 1984 was locked up by a telephone bidder for $ 1.8 million, roughly three times its $ 670,000 high estimate.

Carrying a high estimate of $ 2.5 million, it sold for $ 2.3 million ($ 2.6 million with fees) to another telephone bidder.

The work, which was backed by Christie's, fetched $ 28.2 million, with just one bidder, a telephone client of Loic Gouzer, who was recently promoted to deputy chairman of Christie's postwar and contemporary department.

It sold to a telephone bidder, represented by Lisa Dennison, Sotheby's chairman of North and South America.

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.

Helena Newman, the chairwoman of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art department in Europe, took the winning bid, beating out three other telephone bidders, including a tenacious Asian collector.

Peter Doig's 1991 canvas «Rosedale,» of a Toronto snowfall, guaranteed for $ 25 million, sold for $ 28.8 million to a telephone bidder at a Phillips auction.

Four telephone bidders fought for the painting, «Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (on Light Ground),» which depicts the artist's lover and was painted at the height of their affair.

Roy Lichtenstein's «Red Barn 1» (1969), a Pop version of a quaint American barn set in a bucolic landscape, was estimated at $ 1.4 million to $ 1.8 million, A telephone bidder paid $ 2.4 million.

The records kept falling with Stacked (1988), Jeff Koons» vertical group of polychromed wood animals, carved in a litter (edition of three), which sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $ 250,000 (est. $ 125,000 - $ 175,000).

Sigmar Polke's admired «Menschen wir Du + Ich (People like you + 1)» (1988), a kind of sociological parody of German life that sold to a telephone bidder for # 1,665,250 ($ 2,605,617)(est. # 800,000 - 1.2 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.

International competition from bidders in the saleroom, on the telephones, and on the Internet resulted in a sale total of $ 1,806,813, against an estimate of $ 1,469,000 - 2,183,000, with 70 % sold by lot and a strong 93 % sold by value.

His «Concetto Spaziale, le Chiese di Venezia,» a 1961 canvas inspired by the mosaics, frescoes, glass and stone of churches in Venice, which was expected to fetch $ 6.2 million to $ 9.3 million, went to a telephone bidder for $ 6.8 million.

The second Bacon — «Head III» — a 1949 canvas of a man's head peering eerily out, was bought by an unidentified telephone bidder for $ 16.1 million, well above its $ 10.8 million high estimate.

A hit on the night was Francis Bacon's Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer, 1967 which sold to a telephone bidder for $ 19 108 067.

One of the artist's «Last Supper» paintings, this one from 1986, which had been estimated at $ 5.5 million to $ 7.5 million, brought $ 6.5 million to a telephone bidder.

Christie's generously suspended its normal buyer's premium to add a bit of bargain - hunting atmosphere to the evening, while also contributing a bank of telephones to service absentee bidders, a rarity in charity auctions.

Three works from the collection of Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor doubled the low estimate to bring # 13.8 million ($ 21.8 million) and were led by Vincent van Gogh's Vue de l'aisle de la Chapelle de Saint - Remy, 1889, which sold for # 10 million ($ 16 million), against a # 5 million / 7 million estimate, to a Russian - speaking phone bidder against Christie's chairman of Asia, Ken Yeh, on another telephone.