Sentences with phrase «sold it at auction said»

The donation charity that sold it at auction said it came in with a bad transmission.

Not exact matches

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...

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.

«At last weekend's auctions everything was passed in,» he said about auctions in Melbourne's leafy south - eastern suburbs where properties sell in the $ 3 million to $ 5 million range.

Paul Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, which is selling both lots, said: «Each item is fantastic, unique and of significant historical importance in itself so to have both to come up for auction at the same time is an incredible coincidence and it will be exciting to see how they perform.

NEW YORK — Mohandas Gandhi's eyeglasses and other items have been sold at auction for $ 1.8 million to an Indian freight company, UB Group, that says it wants to donate the items to the Indian government.

The Addison Park District is no longer interested in acquiring the Blades Ice Rink and Fitness Center, a facility being sold at auction next month in a mortgage foreclosure, district officials said.

Said to be the first Chiron sold at auction, this particular car was also the first example ordered for the U.S. market.

«For such an important car to come to the market, it created interest from around the world and was in the end sold to a delighted German buyer, followed by a round of applause in the auction room,» said Chris Routledge, Managing Partner at Coys, of the sale.

But other dogs are sold at auction to other breeders — a practice critics say is unhealthy and allows bad breeders to profit from the sale of their own confiscated or surrendered dogs.

«At our auction, I think 75 percent of the people who sell dogs, and the rescues who come to our sale, will do things the right way,» he said.

Now, at least some are taking them to auctions to sell to rescuers, Grosenbacher and some rescuers say.

The state has no laws preventing dog auctions and concerned dog lovers say the animals sold at those auctions need help.

12/01/10 - NBC4i - Advocates Pushing To Get Dog Auctions Banned in Ohio 11/29/10 - Columbus Dispatch - Advocates pushing state to ban dog auctions 11/15/10 - The News - Herald - Petitioners pushing to ban Ohio dog auctions 10/04/10 - Animal Law Coalition - Ohio Giving Commercial Dog Breeders a Pass on Taxes 09/27/10 - The News - Herald - Feds: Some Ohio kennels «problematic» 09/27/10 - The News - Herald - Coalition wants to see improper «puppy mills,» «dog auctuions» regulated in Ohio 09/01/10 - USA Today - Animal activists» start - ups help pets, inspire people 07/29/10 - WKBN.com - Activists: Ban Dog Auctions in Ohio 07/29/10 - The Vindicator - Group vows a fight with bite to ban dog auctions Excerpt from this article: NORTH LIMA — Dr. Donald Allen, a Boardman veterinarian (and Ohio Farm Bureau member), said he's dealt with pets bred in puppy mills and sold at dog auctions for years.

Dr. Donald Allen, a Boardman veterinarian, said he's dealt with pets bred in puppy mills and sold at dog auctions for years.

The puppy mill operator may make a premium on the dogs he or she sold to rescues at auction — let's say the operator gets a 10 % higher price on the dogs sold, due to rescues bidding up the price.

«The property will be sold to the highest bidder, regardless of price so every hotel investor that has any interest in buying a quality hotel property at auction needs to be at this auction,» said Karbelk.

In the book, Saatchi brushes off allegations of harming the market for Scully, saying, «I did own about five of his works but as his paintings now sell for $ 800,000 + at auction, I don't think it sounds like I've destroyed his market completely.»

The auction house said it has discovered a previously unknown Rothko painting, which it expects to sell for at least $ 18 million on May 11 in New York.

But in 2007, when his 1991 White Canoe, a nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Man Tries to Sell Stolen Sean Scully Painting Through Auction House Who Alerted the Painter: According to the NYPost, «Arturo Rucci, 50, ripped off Sean Scully's painting — valued at $ 400 - 600,000 — and tried selling it last month, cops said.»

«These sales were average and the works found buyers, with reasonably good quality selling at higher values,» said Skarlet Smatana, director of the George Economou Collection in Athens, who attended the auctions.

«This was an historic event in the auction world, with three major records set in the space of a few short hours: a record for any Post-War and Contemporary art sale at $ 388.5 million, a record for any private collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art at $ 174.9 million for the Pincus Collection, and a new record for the most expensive work of the period, with Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow sold for $ 86.9 million,» said Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art.

Between May 8 and 12, 2016, as many as nine auction sales took place at three of the biggest houses selling Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary artworks today and, to say the very least, it was an exciting time.

Bonhams expert Giles Peppiatt said works by Africa's best - known living artists typically sell for less than $ 150,000, or the ballpark asking price at auction for works by much younger, less time - tested artists like New York art star Dan Colen.

Represented in London by Victoria Miro, his work has never been sold at auction: Buyers of his art, he says, are not speculators.

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.

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.

«People sell into strength, hence the same artists appear over and over at galleries and auctions,» says Kenny Schachter, who runs a gallery across the road from Gagosian in London's King's Cross district.»

Phillips has a client who placed an irrevocable bid, guaranteeing that the 6.6 - foot - wide artwork sells at auction, the company said.

Six paintings by Gerhard Richter sold last night at auction for a total of almost $ 30 million, confirming his status as the most bankable living artist, dealers said.

Isabelle Paagman, the European head of private sales at Sotheby's, says a series of successful results at auction has led Sotheby's to be more proactive when it comes to sourcing and selling works by women.

Richter's «Netz,» a red, yellow and green abstract painting, was sold after the auction to a private U.S. collector for 5.5 million pounds, Francis Outred, head of postwar and contemporary art, Europe, said at a news conference after last night's sale.

«I hope that the return of this painting will encourage other families in possession of looted art to return them instead of trying to sell them at auction,» said Czarnecki.

At Christie's, Pablo Picasso's «Les Femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)» shattered expectations when it sold for $ 179.4 million (including fees) on May 11, the highest price ever recorded for a work of art at auction, the company saiAt Christie's, Pablo Picasso's «Les Femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)» shattered expectations when it sold for $ 179.4 million (including fees) on May 11, the highest price ever recorded for a work of art at auction, the company saiat auction, the company said.

It goes without saying that Guston, who doubled the auction record at Christie's in May when a painting sold for a staggering $ 25.9 million, is a market titan; prints from this late series have sold for as much as $ 12,000 at auction, with an edition of this particular work fetching $ 6,500 at Christie's way back in 2004.

«The majority of the best of British contemporary art does not have the opportunity to appear at auction — it is sold through galleries,» he says, noting that sculptor and Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread has 191 auction lots logged with Artnet, «but the vast majority are multiple editions.»

The financial value (if not the artistic merit) of such a work will be determined on March 8 at an auction held by Phillips de Pury & Company, where a painting of the «Colbert Report» host will be sold, Comedy Central said on Friday.

«In the Sun» by American impressionist painter Childe Hassam will be sold at Sotheby's on May 17 as part of its American Art sale for an estimated $ 1.5 million to $ 2.5 million, the auction house said Thursday.

The upcoming auction is unique in the large number of units that will be sold simultaneously on the Web rather than in traditional sequential fashion, which offers one item at a time, Stevenson says.

For example: Let's say a $ 100,000 house is being sold at this month's foreclosure auction.

For example, let's say a bank has foreclosed on a property and could not sell it at an auction.

Officials say that from 2008 to 2011, the eight investors conspired — or made payoffs — to not bid against each other for properties sold at foreclosure auctions.