Industrial auctioneer Smith Broughton had its biggest ever auction in September, with $ 14.3 million worth of used mining kit
sold under the hammer.
Bracco, a 4634 acre (1875 hectares) cattle grazing farm near Roma in south - west Queensland, has
sold under the hammer for $ 4.575 million, indicating a 20 per cent uplift in values in the sector over the past 12 months.
Not exact matches
A rare complete set of Penfolds Grange wine has gone
under the
hammer in Adelaide,
selling for a handy $ 230,000.
That early Subaru P1 went to a collector for $ 30,000, while the Countach that Radcliffe
sold privately in 2008 went
under RM Sotheby's
hammer six years later for $ 116,500.
No fewer than 15 other Fords went
under the
hammer at the sale including: a Capri 280 Brooklands, Mk2 Focus RS and a rally - spec Escort MKII RS1800 which
sold for # 47k, # 44k and # 98k respectively.
A British painter whose harrowing, anguished paintings and infamously licentious personal life have provided endless fodder for movie - makers, scholars, and artists alike, Francis Bacon has achieved the stature of a contemporary - art legend — all the more so now that his triptych portrait of his friend Lucian Freud made headlines when it
sold for $ 142.4 million at Christie's, making it the priciest artwork to ever go
under the
hammer.
How Masterpieces Get
Sold: Behind 10 Contemporary Art Icons That Went
Under the
Hammer at Christie ’s
Just look at his market: at Christie's in November he set a new world record when Red and Pink (1950)
sold for $ 4.9 million, and every single artwork of his that went
under the
hammer in the season's auctions fetched at least twice its estimate.
Art Sales Index records show that three most recent Clyfford Still paintings to go
under the
hammer were all
sold at that auction house: «1947 - R - No. 1» fetched $ 21.3 million in 2006 «1955 - D, PH - 387»
sold for $ 7.9 million in 2007, and «1946 (PH - 182)» made $ 14 million in 2008.
Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary was
sold for $ 3.91 million, Malcolm Morley's SS Amsterdam in Front of Rotterdam for $ 1.57 million, Jeff Elrod's Echo Painting (B / W) was
sold for $ 281,723, Brent Wadden's Alignment (13) had the biggest difference between
hammer price ($ 156,513) and high estimate (+100 percent), R. H. Quaytman's Constructivismes, Chapter 13 was
sold for $ 751,262 —
under high estimate, as well as the Great Deeds Against the Dead by the Chapman brothers, which was
sold for $ 547,796.
Some common sense too, if I own a trailer manufacturing company, contract in that company name to expand my operation, change my mind,
sell the contract, there won't be any issue bottom line, but if my company is XYZ Flipping Homes, paying taxes
under a tax code of a real estate operator, I can be
hammered.