Sentences with phrase «phone bidder»

A "phone bidder" is a person who participates in an auction by placing bids over the phone instead of being physically present at the auction location. Full definition
But the night's big draw was the chance to buy the copyrights to the entire Jimi Hendrix music catalog — they went to an anonymous phone bidder for $ 15 million.
Black Fire I had been on loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for nearly 30 years, and went to an anonymous phone bidder after a five - minute contest.
The star lot on the night, a rare combined spin / butterfly painting by Damien Hirst featuring cubic zirconia, sold for $ 240,000 to an unnamed phone bidder from Los Angeles.
When one phone bidder asked for a $ 13,000 bid, Palmieri said, «So much for increments ladies and gentlemen.
Dueling phone bidders waged a fast and fierce battle for the luminous canvas with stacked red and blue color blocks, the winner ultimately paying $ 75.1 million (including buyer's premium).
The buyer was Sotheby's Natasha Mendelsohn, acting on behalf of unidentified phone bidder.
She was underbid by Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art, also taking instructions from a second phone bidder.
Bids came in from Christie's head of contemporary art Brett Gorvy, Christie's specialist Koji Inoue and dealer Larry Gagosian, all representing phone bidders, and he eventually took Mr. Inoue bid of $ 1 million.
An untitled inkjet painting by Wade Guyton from 2006 sold to a lone phone bidder for $ 4.6 million, above a low estimate of $ 4 million.
The painting, which was voted by Post readers as their favorite cover, was sought after by two phone bidders who competed for more than 9 minutes.
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.
On loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for almost 30 years, it was bought by an anonymous phone bidder after a five - minute bidding contest.
Bidding on this last lot of the day started strongly but became tedious, with a drawn - out bidding war between an in - room bidder and a phone bidder racking up the last couple million dollars in increments of several hundred thousand at a time.
The bright orange sculpture was sold from the collection of Peter Brant to an anonymous phone bidder.
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.
Simon Tovey, Head of the New Now Sale in London, said: «Shara Hughes attracted widespread interest from nine phone bidders, as well as interest in the room and online.
The other work from The Collection of Johnny Depp was Basquiat's Self Portrait (1981), which more than doubled its high estimate to reach # 3,554,500 / $ 4,745,258 / $ 4,279,618 after a bidding war of 10 phone bidders.
Zhang Xiaogang's Bloodline: Big Family, No. 2, was the session's most expensive lot; the 1995 oil on canvas went for HK$ 26,420,000 to an anonymous phone bidder.
Although it was expected to sell for $ 6 million to $ 8 million, a phone bidder snapped it up for $ 21.6 million.
A phone bidder raised it to $ 3.05 million.
One such work, by Francis Bacon, a triptych of studies of his partner John Edwards from 1984 which are similar to the Freud studies, hammered for a (strangely) subdued $ 72 million, sold to Christie's Deputy Chairman for Asia Xin Li, on behalf of a phone bidder.
The standout of those lots was an Alexander Calder, Poissson volant (Flying Fish)(1957), which twisted, rather quickly, over the audience and nearly doubled its high estimate to make a hammer price of $ 23 million, selling to Ms. Li's phone bidder, with Mr. Gagosian the underbidder, registering half - million increments with definite nods of his silver, cropped head.
painting that the catalogue called «warm and joyous,» was the auction's top lot, selling for $ 34,201,000 to a phone bidder, above the presale high estimate of $ 30,000,000.
In esthetic contrast, the somber and austere Untitled (Black and Gray)(1969), done in acrylic, sold for $ 10,681,000, also to a phone bidder.
Reflecting our martial times (or perhaps not), it sold for $ 11,241,000 to a phone bidder, a new record for the artist.
Graff also helped run up the price of Warhol's 40 x 40 in., 1978 portrait of Muhammad Ali, which was estimated at $ 2 million - $ 3 million but finally sold to a phone bidder for $ 9,225,000.
The work, 1949 - A - No. 1 (1949), eventually went to Ms. Dennison's phone bidder, and set a new record for the artist at $ 61.7 million.
Lucio Fontana's «Concetto Spaziale, Le Chiese di Venezia» was sold to a phone bidder for 4.45 million pounds, just above the low estimate.
David Zwirner, who has been doing more and more business with Mr. Koons — he staged a Koons show at his gallery this past spring and bought a lower - end Koons at last night's Phillips sale — jumped in at $ 39 million, speaking for a client on his cellphone and going slowly back and forth with a phone bidder up to its final price.
The painting would go on to sell for $ 69.6 million to an anonymous phone bidder, setting an auction record for the artist after a five - and - a-half-minute contest.
«Helter Skelter I» sold to a phone bidder for the equivalent of $ 10,359,750 (hammer price), $ 11,977,943 (including fees), in Phillips 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
One of his abstract compositions of fiery reds, from 1992, sold to a phone bidder for $ 15 million, or $ 16.8 million with fees, well above its high $ 10 million estimate.
A phone bidder bested the competition.
Phillips first Post-Brexit sale of Contemporary art in London was topped by Anselm Kiefer's late painting For Velimir Khlebnikov; The doctrine of War; Battles, (2004 - 2010), which sold for # 2.4 million ($ 3.28 million) to a phone bidder.
We bid at a local live auction on 1/26 (Williams & Williams Auctions), we were the winning bid (there were five phone bidders, which was a weird experience b / c a guy with an earpiece kept calling out counterbids during the auction).
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