Auctioneer Helena Newman led a brisk
sale over the course of the evening, coordinating quick back and forth bids that kept prices rising and works moving quickly, a performance that earned a number of strong sales in the early lots, and kept momentum high until the last lots of the sale, when enthusiasm seemed to peter out.
Not exact matches
My gut tells me that one will sign and one will leave, but it's going to be very long end to the season and an
even longer summer, full
of rumours, speculations and probably
sales, but
of course it could also mean that both players have already decided that they are not going to extend but can't confirm it until the season is
over.
That's because productivity improvements,
sales increases, and
even customer queue times that are reduced from initial time frames do not happen
over the
course of one night.
Ford,
of course, knows its market, and can't be expecting tremendous
sales; given that, I'm glad they've brought
over this mini people - mover option rather than saving it for Europe...
even though I'll be in a Town & Country.
This,
of course, ignores the long terms
sales —
even if you miss 500 books in a year, you could very well exceed that figure
over a longer term.
Considering the past several outings for the auction houses in London and New York, where only a handful
of buyers were reportedly keeping the market afloat, this week's
sales hit a different note entirely, with ample phone bids that saw one major auction record fall with Constantin Brancusi's La Muse Endormie demolishing expectations at
over $ 57 million, and marquee lots performing quite well
over the
course of the
evening.