I wouldn't buy one today for a penny more thanwhat someone else
paid at the auction.
The price that was
paid at the auction is THE MARKET VALUE.
And, at $ 4 billion, the price doesn't appear to be crazy, especially when considering that's less than the amount that Google rivals
paid at auction for the patent portfolio of Nortel (which took place shortly before Google acquired Motorola).
The highest price
paid at auction for a work by Francis Tansey was recorded in 2004, when his abstract painting, entitled Solid Red, was sold at James Adams, in Dublin, for $ 15,000.
The highest price
paid at auction for a painting by John Shinnors was recorded in 2008, when his work, entitled Estuary Forms - Limerick, was sold at Morgan O'Driscoll, in Co Cork, for $ 70,000.
The highest price
paid at auction for a painting by John Noel Smith was recorded in 2006, when his work, entitled Ogham V, was sold at Sotheby's, in London, for # 36,000.
The top lot, an untitled abstraction by Lewis, was bid up to the second - highest price
paid at auction for a work by the late artist.
Three months ago, Sotheby's sold a purple self - portrait that Warhol made months before he died in 1986 for $ 32.5 million, more than double its high estimate and the third - highest price ever
paid at auction for a Warhol.
Sept 28: Jack B Yeats Painting Sells for $ 1 million in Ireland A Fair Day, Mayo (1925), an oil painting by Jack B. Yeats, was hammered down for $ 1 million at Adam's sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin (against a pre-sale estimate of $ 500,000 - $ 800,000 — the highest price ever
paid at auction for a painting in Ireland.
The highest price
paid at auction for a painting by John Luke was recorded in 1999, when his landscape, entitled The Bridge, was sold at Christie's, in London, for # 41,500.
The highest price
paid at auction for a work by Kenneth Webb was recorded in 2005, when his Galway - City of Tribes series, was sold at Whytes, in Dublin, for $ 132,000.
As of June 2015, the highest sum
paid at auction for Carol Rama was 80,600 euros.
It is unlikely that the top prices
paid at auction would be recovered at this moment.
Sotheby's and Christie's both have works from the same series as the record price
paid at auction for a Stingel, the copper - plate versions of the Celotex works created during the artist's seminal 2007 Whitney show.
It features more than 100 major works by O'Keeffe, including Jimson Weed, below, from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, which purchased it in 2014 for $ 44.4 million, the most ever
paid at auction for the work of a woman artist.
During the auctions last week, Christie's sold Frida Kahlo's 1939 oil - on - metal painting «Dos Desnudos en el Bosque (La Tierra Misma),» for $ 8 million, an auction high for Kahlo and reputedly the most ever
paid at auction for a Latin American artist.
2,700 Dollars
paid at auction for a toilet that once stood in the Cleveland Stadium suite of Browns owner Art Modell.
Gerhardt Richter whose work sells for millions never receives any money
paid at auctions for work he initially sold for thousands.
Not exact matches
For Christie's, the week started with the $ 179.4 million sale of Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version 0), the most ever
paid for a work of art
at auction.
An anonymous bidder agreed
at auction to
pay $ 3,456,789 to eat lunch with Warren Buffett, tying the record for the right to dine with one of the world's most admired investors.
In October 2013, Musk
paid over $ 600,000
at auction for the Lotus Esprit submarine used by James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me.
The bids started jumping in increments of $ 10 million, and almost immediately reached $ 225 million, far surpassing the previous record for a sale
at auction: the $ 179.4 million
paid for Picasso's «Women of Algiers»
at Christie's in 2015.
Last week, Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau
paid 48.6 million Swiss francs ($ 48.4 million)
at Sotheby's in Geneva for a 12.03 - carat blue diamond, the most spent on a jewel
at auction.
Fonterra said the average price
paid at its latest globalDairyTrade held on 15 February was 23.7 per cent higher than the 1 December
auction.
One of the most exciting aspects of contract bridge is the competitive
auction in which each player tries to determine the price he can afford to
pay for the privilege of naming the trump suit or the declaration
at which his side will gain the most points or lose the fewest.
At the Barrett's
auction of 2 - year - old horsesin Pomona, Calif., Hendricks and his longtime client Cecil Peacock, an oilmanfrom Calgary, wanted Brother Derek, and Peacock
paid $ 275,000 for theCalifornia - bred juvenile.
The benefit and silent
auction, now in its seventh year, help raise funds that
pay the salary of a new lawyer's pro bono services
at a local non-profit agency serving the under - privileged.
In May, Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel artwork The Scream sold for $ 119.9 million, the highest price ever
paid for art
at auction.
After Connelly's character is evicted from her house for refusing to
pay delinquent taxes — an error that she does not correct — Kingsley's stern newcomer bids and wins the house
at auction.
The fervor of Ash's devotees is extraordinary, inducing one person to
pay a ridiculous amount of money for a toothpick
at an Ash themed
auction.
While you weren't
paying attention, the 1997 22B prototype was sold right under your nose
at Goodwood's
auction.
When I look
at the buy - sell range of pre-owned vehicles today, it scares me to think small
auctions in small town U.S.A. draw mainly buy - here,
pay - here dealers.
A sharp 400i will typically sell for well under $ 100,000, and the huge $ 417,450
paid here makes it the most valuable 400i ever sold
at auction.
Although $ 38 million sounds like an extreme sum to
pay for any car
at auction, the figure was actually lower than the
auction company's initial estimate of $ 50 million.
A Ford GT owner got significantly more than they
paid for the supercar when it sold
at auction last week.
That sum represents a new world record, the most money
paid for any American - made car to have crossed an
auction block, and makes the unrestored Cobra one of the fifteen most expensive cars sold
at auction.
Back in June someone
paid $ 300,000
at a Barrett - Jackson
auction for the privilege of owning the first production 2013 SRT Viper when it comes off the production line later this year.
Rick won the right to purchase VIN 001 back
at the Barrett - Jackson Palm Beach
auction in April by
paying $ 1 million dollars which was donated to the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan.
In January 2013, he
paid $ 1.05 Million
at Barrett - Jackson's Scottdale
auction for the rights the first 2014 Corvette Stingray Coupe.
Today, the 300SL can fetch prices as high as $ 2.2 million
at auction, which is a small price to
pay for owning one of the world's most beautiful vehicles.
• A 1640 book of psalms — one of only 11 known copies of the first book ever published in English in what would become the United States — sold
at auction this week for a whopping $ 14.16 million dollars, the most ever
paid for a book.
Simon & Schuster has won what it has labelled a «psychological drama» by author Sarah Vaughan
at auction,
paying a «good six figures».
Every six months Treasury
pays interest based on a fixed rate of interest determined
at auction.
Rather than repossess a vehicle that has a loan of $ 5000 against it (and receive $ 1000 for it
at an
auction), the smarter creditors will agree to just continue taking your money without a reaffirmation agreement if you're willing to continue
paying.
If an
auction fails, the issuer becomes obligated to
pay interest
at penalty rates, and all of the
auction rate securities MEMS holds continue to
pay interest in accordance with their stated terms.
Unlike the stock market, where everyone can see what people are
paying, most collectibles have to be sold private party or
at auction.
When you're behind on car loan payments, the lender has the right to take back or repossess the vehicle, sell it
at auction and use the proceeds to
pay down your loan balance.
The home actually sold
at auction for what we owed, so the bank did not take a loss and my credit report from Experion indicates that my lender was
paid in full.
I bought an expensive car
at an
auction for about 75 % of what it was worth where I
paid 12k cash with all the money I saved.
the price
paid for fixed ‐ income securities purchased directly from the issuer; for example, a Treasury
Auction bond purchased directly from the U.S. government would cost $ 1,000
at face value