Sentences with phrase «strong auction result»

Another strong auction result took the combined total for the 20th Century at Christie's season to # 258,313,636 / $ 318,704,602, with more sales to come, beginning with the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction on 8 March.

It looks as though people who are looking for a performance - oriented collector car are finally taking notice of Firebirds, as this is a strong auction result for this Pontiac convertible.

Not exact matches

Auction house Goodings also reported strong results: a 1936 Mercedes - Benz 540 K Special Roadster sold for $ 11.8 million over the weekend, and a 1960 Ferrari «competition» 250 GT California Spyder went for $ 11.3 million.

Nevertheless, strong results at the second - ever Leggenda e Passione auction were the rule, rather than the exception.

Other strong results included a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO, selling at $ 3,948,230, a new world record for the model at auction.

Of the Amelia Island auctions this year, Gooding & Company boasted the strongest results, leading the way with $ 35,937,250 in sales and a 95 percent sell - through rate at its 87 - vehicle auction.

The market for contemporary art is stronger than it's ever been, particularly at auction, with young artists — many of them recent graduates — achieving astonishing results.

Sighs of relief at Christie's Postwar & Contemporary sale Following the mixed results of this week's first clutch of New York auctions, Christie's Postwar & Contemporary evening sale last night produced a consistently «strong» result, reports The Art Newspaper.

With strong results from the live sale on 10 October 2017 that set a world auction record for Peter Beard and highlighted Irving Penn who had four lots within the top 10 sale results, the series of seven online - only auctions have added to such successes.

We saw the strong results for Lehman Brothers art holdings when they were auctioned in Philadelphia.

Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer, characterized the auction results as strong, noting that it was «a collector's sale» that put a high value of «freshness» to the market with «spirited bidding» in the room, in contrast with Sotheby's Impressionist sale that was dominated by telephone bidding.

Two days of auctions at Christie's Paris, held May 22 — 23, achieved strong results for Impressionist and modern art, with combined sales achieving a total of almost $ 13 million ($ 16.3 million).

At many of the evening auctions starting last week, top - quality objects coupled with appropriate estimates produced strong results.

Led by five major works by Sigmar Polke, arguably the greatest grouping of Polke works ever offered at auction, which realized # 16,252,500 / $ 20,608,170 / $ 26,117,770 (see single sold prices below), tonight's sale saw strong bidding from international buyers resulting in half of the lots (49 % / 21 lots) selling above estimate, many for double or even five times of their pre-sale estimate — like Aggregate (2004) by Anthony Gormley which sold for # 1,258,500 / $ 2,022,410 / $ 1,595,778 against an estimate of # 150,000 - 200,000.