Sentences with phrase «sold at auction before»

The APT, together with Sotheby's, had selected artists who had all sold at auction before and only two out of the 15 works offered were not sold.

It is not often that Sotheby's or Christie's thrusts a young contemporary artist, whose works they have never sold at auction before, into the limelight of a select evening sale.

Not exact matches

Lebón was boughtfor $ 1,600 in Uruguay (after being sold at public auction shortly before for $ 600).

About a year before the aforementioned Ferrari 250 GTO moved the record up to $ 38 million, this Mercedes - Benz racing car set a world record for the most expensive car sold at auction.

Although no longer racing, it was shown at various special motorsports events before it was sold for over $ 12 million ($ 9.02 million) at Ferrari's Leggende e Passione auction in May 2009.

At the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance this Countach was brought back to life... to come in second in the Lamborghini class before being taken back to Canada where she would remain until being offered for auction in 2015... to be sold for US $ 1,320,000.

Yes, in many instances you can file bankruptcy almost up to the minute before your house is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction.

Filing bankruptcy the night before a home is scheduled to be sold at auction can temporarily stop the process.

Foreclosure defense is also available — which may give you valuable additional time in the home before the home can be sold at auction.

If you didn't purchase the TIPS at auction or if you sold it before maturity, consult the Interest and OID for After Market page for the year you purchased or sold.

If you purchased a TIPS at auction and haven't sold it before maturity, you can multiply these amounts by your holdings in 1,000's to determine the OID and interest that apply to you.

I have sold 90 % of PRXI shares in the last few days as I didn't want to jeopardize majority of my 100 % + gains on a binary event (auction of the titanic) and have kept the rest 10 % (a sort of call option) just in case they do manage to auction off the Titanic assets at a large premium (but I might sell them too before the auction results are out if the stock price goes anywhere close to $ 4).

Lily was born, raised, and perhaps had 13 litters of puppies before being sold to Theresa at the auction for $ 40.

Minutes before that 500 - year - old piece hit the block, a two - year - old Kerry James Marshall painting, Still - Life with Wedding Portrait, went up for sale and drew strong bidding, eventually selling for $ 5.04 million with buyer's premium, a new record for the artist at auction, and a figure well above the $ 1.5 million high estimate the auction house had tagged to the piece.

Pop artist Ed Ruscha, a MOCA trustee known for his deadpan images of parking lots, gas stations and L.A. architecture, now sells pieces for $ 3 million to $ 6 million at auction; he didn't come close to crossing the $ 1 million barrier before 2002.

The painting, which has never appeared at auction before and hasn't been since in public since the late 1970s, is estimated to sell for # 800,000 — # 1,200,000.

ROLE MODEL: Robert & Ethel Scull, Charles Saatchi, Stefan Simchowitz, Adam Sender MO: Buy deep and extensive holdings of work by choice artists before they're famous, ideally making them famous in the process through energetic word - of - mouth marketing efforts, creating a sense of inevitably of the artist's impending stardom; then, when the moment arrives, sell their work off at auction, or privately, at a gigantic markup over the purchase price.

Picasso's bolshy flower girl is just one of the masterpieces on show in London before this 1,600 - strong collection sells at auction

It sold for $ 13,209,500, the highest price realized in the auction which had a sales total of more than $ 78 million and which sold almost 78 percent of its 66 offered lots, a lower percentage than realized the night before at Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, but a bigger sale.

It was executed in 1947 and Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer, said after the sale that the work had been auctioned before at Sotheby's in the mid 1990s when it sold for about $ 500,000.

A strong sense of gloom pervaded the Four Seasons» pool room at the press preview a week before the auction that would sell off its Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen banquettes and tables, its Garth and Ada Louise... Read More

If only in comparison to last night's $ 691.6 million contemporary sale at Christie's, the mood in the room was sleepy, with only 16 lots selling for above their high estimates, 4 lots withdrawn before the auction and 7 of the 61 offered failing to sell.

The Matisse realised $ 80,750,000, a new world auction record for the French master; bidders competed for almost 14 minutes before the stunning Monet, which hung in the stairwell of one of the Rockefellers» homes, sold for $ 84,687,500 — also a new world auction record for the artist; and the Picasso — one of the first paintings by the artist acquired by Leo and Gertrude Stein — became the most expensive Rose Period work at auction when it was bought for $ 115,000,000.

A set of six Andy Warhol self - portraits, created a year before the artist's death, sold at auction for $ 30m (# 17.9 m).

Roy Lichtenstein's «Sleeping Girl» sold for $ 44.9 million at Sotheby's in New York last night, a record for the artist, in a $ 266.6 million contemporary - art auction that was almost a third smaller by value than Christie's the night before.

Sotheby's is hardly testing the water here: Bourgeois holds the record for the most expensive sculpture by a woman to be sold at auction (a within - estimate $ 28.2 million in November 2015 for her nine - foot bronze Spider, 1997) and Kusama once held the auction price record for any living female artist ($ 7.1 million for her painting White No. 28 (1960) in 2014) before being dethroned by Cady Noland.

As Phillips pointed out before the auction, the Scottish - born Doig, whose grand, painterly landscapes are prized by collectors, is one of just five living artists who have sold for more than $ 25 million at auction.

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.

He was active in pursuing and creating private selling exhibitions at Christie's before these practices became commonplace at auction houses.

The last Johns flag painting sold at auction fetched $ 12.1 million in 1989 - before the art market's boom, bust and current tentative recovery.

But now, nearly 300 works by artists including Damien Hirst, Henry Moore and Marcel Duchamp will go on display at Sotheby's in London, before being sold at auction in November.

The client took out a loan from Civic to purchase this property at auction and plans to make minor repairs before selling the property at a significantly higher price.