It last
sold at auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, in November 2005 for $ 60,000.
More than 15 years after it raised a ruckus in New York, Chris Ofili's mixed - media painting depicting a black Madonna decorated with elephant manure
sold at auction at Christie's in London today (June 30) for 2.9 million pounds ($ 4.6 million).
Measured by auction sales prices, the world's most valuable contemporary work of art is: Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) by Francis Bacon, which
sold at auction at Christie's New York in 2013, for $ 142.4 million.
[11] In 1988, Johns» False Start was
sold at auction at Sotheby's to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. for $ 17.05 million, setting a record at the time as the highest price paid for a work by a living artist at auction, and the second highest price paid for an artwork at auction in the U.S. [32] In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago - based hedge fund Citadel LLC) bought False Start (1959) from David Geffen [33] for $ 80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.
Hotel magnate Elaine Wynn was apparently the one behind the $ 142m buy of Three Studies of Lucian Freud painting by Francis Bacon in 2013, the most expensive artwork
sold at auction at that point.
The work was
sold at auction at Lempertz in 2008.
In May, one of her pieces
sold at auction at Christie's for $ 1.4 million, four times its appraised value.
It had last
sold at auction at Sotheby's London in June 2006 for around $ 25.7 million.
It sold at auction at Sotheby's in 2008 for $ 18.5 million.
One of his paintings made a new record for the artist in 2002,
selling at auction at Christie's London for over $ 10 million (the estimate had been $ 4 to $ 5 million).
Not exact matches
When structuring a deal for a used oilfield drill for an upcoming
auction in Texas, for example, staff look
at what similar equipment
sold for in that area in the recent past and use that as a guide.
At Thursday's
auction of a 7.37 percent 2023 bond, the Reserve Bank of India was only able to
sell about 430 million rupees out of the 30 billion on offer into the market, with the remainder having to be bought by primary dealers.
Then they have three options for monetizing the site: They can «park» the domain, placing relevant ads on it to generate money; they can
sell the domain to an interested party or
at auction; or they can develop the site into a real business.
I am also a business owner and lifestyle editor
at Worthy.com, the premier online
auction house for
selling pre-owned diamonds, all by - products of the thousands of hours I invested reinventing myself after my divorce.
A pair of fancy colored diamond earrings
sold for a whopping $ 57.4 million
at auction Tuesday, setting a new record.
Combined, the pair set a record for the most expensive earrings ever
sold at auction.
The piece was only supposed to
sell for $ 400,000, but was bought by a commodities trader based out of Texas for a grand $ 1.8 million
at an
auction in Beverly Hills, California in June.
The company's business began to slow during World War II when the focus shifted to cheaper materials such as limestone and concrete aggregate, and the entire property was
sold at auction in 1948.
Meads told Business Insider that he had managed to
sell it
at an
auction last year, but then the customer, who wanted to bring it to Iran, had problems
at taking it out of the country, and the sale fell apart.
Lost for decades after its appearance in «Thunderball,» the Top Time surfaced in 2013
at a car boot sale and
sold for an incredible $ 160,383
at auction.
It was the largest flawless white diamond ever to come to
auction when
sold for $ 33.7 million
at Christie's in Geneva last November, but experts said
at the time the price showed the top end of the diamond...
In Boston, a pair of adjacent parking spots
sold at auction for $ 560,000.
There is a wide variance in what medals
sell for
at auction.
They also offered to
sell off a related file for about $ 500 million in bitcoin
at auction.
One of the «Miracle on Ice» medals from the 1980 Team USA hockey team was expected to fetch $ 1.5 to 2 million, but it failed to
sell at auction earlier this summer.
Recently, a 1992 Peterbilt 379 truck and 1967 Chevrolet Camaro that previously served as alternate modes for Optimus and Bumblebee, respectively, were
sold at auction.
Sotheby's plans to
sell the ring
at the Magnificent Jewels
auction at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues in Geneva on Wednesday.
Another apartment that
sold for $ 21 million
at One57 went to foreclosure
auction earlier this month, but there's no word yet on the result.
Upcoming
auctions include one in Quail Lodge, California on August 19,
at which a 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari is seen
selling for $ 3.6 million - $ 4.2 million.
Feedback is important to the eBay user, according to Joseph Sinclair, author of eBay the Smart Way:
Selling, Buying and Profiting on the Web's # 1
Auction Site: «If a buyer is purchasing an expensive item, maybe over $ 100, they'll definitely look
at the feedback of the seller first.
The first release is anticipated to be
sold at auction in August 1999.
A Frida Kahlo painting has
sold for just over $ 8 million
at auction, a world
auction record for the late Mexican artist.
Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Jon Cox said he estimated the size of the second - hand market
at around $ 5 billion a year in revenue, including watches
sold at auction, and that it had outperformed the market for new pieces in the last couple of years.
A Harley - Davidson
sold at auction on Thursday for almost 20 times its estimated value — because its previous owner was the pope.
This weekend, a single bottle of rare Macallan»M» whisky
sold for $ 628,205
at a Sotheby's
auction in Hong Kong.
And another, a 14.6 carat diamond called the «Oppenheimer Blue,»
sold for $ 57.6 million
at an
auction.
A six - liter bottle of rare Macallan»M» whisky became the most expensive bottle ever
sold at an
auction.
But you're probably wondering about the 118 - carat oval diamond recently
sold at auction for $ 27.3 - million.
However,
selling the Lesedi La Rona
at a public
auction breaks this tradition.
He added that this is the first time someone's remains have been
sold at auction.
Truman Capote's remains were
auctioned off on Saturday,
selling for an astounding $ 45,000
at Julien's Auctions.
Just this week in Orange County, CA, a 1963 Volkswagen Samba Microbus
sold for $ 217,800
at auction.
CNBC's «Secret Lives of the Super Rich» takes a look
at the most expensive watch ever
sold at auction, formerly owned by actor Paul Newman.
Last year alone, more than US$ 346 - million worth of his oeuvre was
sold at auction.
A vintage Rolex wristwatch
sold at Phillips in Geneva for $ 5,060,427, becoming the most expensive Rolex ever
auctioned.
This spring the
auction house broke the world record for the most expensive diamond ever
sold at auction with the $ 71.2 million sale of the «Pink Star» diamond.
The two bought cartons of lost books
at auctions held by the U.S. Postal Service in Chicago and then
sold them on campus.
Another woman sent in a picture of an emerald ring she had and it
sold at auction for $ 1.6 million.
It
sold at auction for $ 3.1 million.
After the
auction, you're left with 20 bitcoin, which you could
sell at market price (to be fair, it could be a few thousand dollars higher or lower — and your own activity might have an impact on the prevailing price).