Sentences with phrase «sell at auction highlights»

But the reluctance of artists to sell at auction highlights why financial models are difficult to apply to art.

Not exact matches

Other highlights of this auction include Lot 20, «Duridium,» a 26 - by - 36 inch magna on canvas, dated 1964, by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997), estimated at $ 600,000 to $ 800,000, which sold for $ 607,500; Lot 21, «Ileana Sonnabend,» a 1963 metallic paint on canvas, 77 3/4 - by -128-inch work by Frank Stella (b. 1936) that has a high estimate of $ 600,000, and which sold for $ 684,500; Lot 29,» Evening in the Studio,» a monumental painting that out - Rubens Rubens by Lucian Freud and has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,500,000, and which sold for only $ 2,422,500; Lot 30, «Lying Figure,» a large, interesting composition by Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 2,500,000 and is starker than his more painterly small works, and which was passed at $ 1,600,000; Lot 35, «Bedouin (Personage Gris et Rougeatre),» a great Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) painting that is conservatively estimated at $ 700,000 to $ 900,000 and which sold for $ 992,500; and Lot 46, «Aux Bons Principes,» a more colorful but not as strong Dubuffet that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,000,000, and which sold for $ 2,202,500; and Lot 63, an untitled, large painting by Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) that has a mysterious, luminous and mystical sense of a great mountainscape by the Sung Dynasty masters of China and has a conservative high estimate of $ 300,000, and which was passed at $ 150,000.

I would say the biggest highlight was one of my sculptures selling for the high estimate at a contemporary African Art auction in Paris last November.

Overall sales in World Art and Science & Books were # 123.6 m, up 3 % ($ 160.1 m, down 1 %), with highlights including a world auction record for an enigma cipher machine that sold for $ 547,500 to an online bidder during New York's June Books and Manuscripts sale, and Albert Einstein's telescope, which sold for $ 432,500 in New York in December, setting a world auction record for any scientific object owned by Einstein offered at auction.