Sentences with phrase «speaking phone bidder»
Three works from the collection of Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor doubled the low estimate to bring # 13.8 million ($ 21.8 million) and were led by Vincent van Gogh's Vue de l'aisle de la Chapelle de Saint - Remy, 1889, which sold for # 10 million ($ 16 million), against a # 5 million / 7 million estimate, to a Russian - speaking phone bidder against Christie's chairman of Asia, Ken Yeh, on another telephone.
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Minor squabbles punctuated the final hour of the sale — a George Condo went back up for an auction after a faulty phone connection, while a Christian Boltanski photo - sculpture would have sold for more if the bidder spoke a millisecond earlier, just before the hammer went down.
David Zwirner, who has been doing more and more business with Mr. Koons — he staged a Koons show at his gallery this past spring and bought a lower - end Koons at last night's Phillips sale — jumped in at $ 39 million, speaking for a client on his cellphone and going slowly back and forth with a phone bidder up to its final price.