Sentences with phrase «telephone bidder»

[33] Dschungel (Jungle)(1967), a romantic landscape from that used magnified Benday dots from a newspaper in the style of Roy Lichtenstein, sold from the collection of Count Christian Duerckheim to an unidentified telephone bidder for $ 9.2 million at Sotheby's in 2011; [34] by 2015, it sold again for $ 27.1 million.

Richard Diebenkorn's 1979 Ocean Park No. 117 also exceeded its high estimate when it went to an unidentified telephone bidder for $ 6.6 million.

This luminous wall - size painting (261.6 x 158.7 cm) was purchased by anonymous telephone bidder for staggering price of $ 66,245,000, going well above its unofficial estimated price of $ 50 million.

Growing demand from Asia was underlined by the 1.8 million pounds and 1.6 million pounds respectively paid by telephone bidders for colorful 1990s abstract paintings by the Chinese artist Zao Wou - Ki.

The most expensive painting was Modigliani's «Jeanne Hébuterne (Wearing a Hat),» a 1919 portrait of the artist's mistress and muse, which an unidentified telephone bidder bought for $ 30.1 million, far above its high $ 21.8 million estimate.

More than 2,000 people and numerous telephone bidders from around the world joined us at our workshops at Newport Pagnell on Saturday to take part in what has become such an important part of the Aston Martin calendar.»

, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.

At Christie's London on Feb. 11, two telephone bidders pushed Peter Doig's 1991 painting «The Architect's Home in the Ravine» to # 11.3 million with fees.

On Thursday night, 25 years later, it attracted two determined telephone bidders before selling for $ 34 million.

The sensation of the week was the # 30.4 million with fees, or about $ 46.4 million, paid by an American telephone bidder at Sotheby's on Tuesday for a monumental 1986 Gerhard Richter painting.

Alexander Calder's The Plow, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.

Estimated at # 8 million to # 12 million, it drew competition from three telephone bidders before selling for a top price of # 12.7 million.

An unnamed telephone bidder purchased the painting via Sotheby's specialist Charlie Moffett.

[2] A 1964 Ferrari 250 LM was auctioned off by Sotheby's in 2013 for a price of $ 14.3 million to an undisclosed telephone bidder.

The price skyrocketed when six telephone bidders vied for the painting, according to the New York Times.

The Hong Kong - based real - estate developer Joseph Lau was among the unsuccessful telephone bidders, Rachel Kong, the businessman's personal assistant, said in an e-mail on Feb. 23.

Helena Newman, the chairwoman of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art department in Europe, took the winning bid, beating out three other telephone bidders, including a tenacious Asian collector.

The biggest single contributor was an anonymous telephone bidder who paid $ 86.9 million for the abstract expressionist painting Orange, Red, Yellow (1961) by Mark Rothko.

At SFMOMA's Art Auction pre-party Wednesday at Artis Capital Management, Director Neal Benezra recalled that in 2006, a mysterious telephone bidder won a Philip Guston work.

It sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $ 5.5 million, a record for the artist.

All were bought by telephone bidders.

The 1963 work was won by a phone client of Charles Moffett, vice chairman of Sotheby's Americas, who vied with at least two other highly determined telephone bidders.

[18] In 2014, his flame painting Untitled (Fire, Red / Black U)(2005) sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for $ 3.525 million at Christie's, New York.

Andy Warhol's «Triple Elvis» sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $ 82 million at Christie's New York / Andrew Gombert - European Pressphoto Agency

Four telephone bidders fought for the painting, «Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (on Light Ground),» which depicts the artist's lover and was painted at the height of their affair.

The famed Aston sold to a telephone bidder last Friday evening, who was undoubtedly enamored with the car's provenance, which includes an overall win at the 1959 Nurburgring 1000KM and such drivers as Carroll Shelby, Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham and Roy Salvadori.

Nevertheless, some exciting battles were fought and a few new market records were set, most notably for Diego Rivera, whose brightly colored scene The Rivals (1931) sold for $ 9.76 million to a telephone bidder working with Conor Jordan, deputy chairman of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's, after just a few minutes of bidding.

It climbed to $ 7.6 million, $ 7.7 million, and $ 7.8 million at a pace, then $ 8 million, going from there to $ 8.5 million when a telephone bidder pushed it to $ 9 million, competing with a lady in the room and earning gasps from the audience.

(1931) sold for $ 9.76 million to a telephone bidder working with Conor Jordan, deputy chairman of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's, after just a few minutes of bidding.

When a telephone bidder asked to bid $ 9.95 million the room erupted in laughter.

Both works sold toward the low end of their estimates to telephone bidders, for $ 17 million and $ 17.2 million.

Amedeo Modigliani's swan - necked beauty, «Jeanne Hebuterne (au chapeau),» featuring his muse and common - law wife, took the resale trophy as it sold to yet another telephone bidder for just over $ 42 million against the estimate of $ 25 — 34 million.

The painting was purchased by a telephone bidder and well surpassed the estimated sale of at least # 35 (or $ 48.3 million) expected by Sotheby's.

The top end of the Richter market had its wobbles last year, but «Eisberg,» owned by the same European collector since 1983 and offered without a guarantee, attracted competition from four telephone bidders, selling for # 17.7 million to a buyer represented by Shu Zheng, a Sotheby's staff member based in London who works with collectors in Asia.

At Christie's, the market for the Nigerian - born Los Angeles artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose limited output of new works is exclusively being bought by museums, reached a new level when her 2012 mixed - media standing figure study of a young girl, «The Beautyful Ones» was pushed by six telephone bidders to # 2.5 million.

At Christie's, it sold within the estimate to a telephone bidder for # 10.7 million, a price that reflected the work's provenance.

Three contenders — Mr. Deitch, an unidentified telephone bidder and Kadee Robbins, the director of Michael Werner Gallery in London — went after «Composition (Passage: East / West),» a 1968 painting of primitive figures and abstract signs by A. R. Penck.

At the sale last Wednesday evening, there were at least three bidders in contention at # 3.8 million, and one, an anonymous telephone bidder, at # 5.3 million.

It was underbid by an internet client in China, and was acquired by an anonymous telephone bidder.

That formula also saved Richard Prince's untitled 2003 joke painting, acquired in the year it was made from Barbara Gladstone Gallery, that sold to a telephone bidder for just $ 212,500 on a $ 300 - 400,000 estimate.

He sold off six pieces for $ 76.7 million combined, including a $ 26.4 million Gerhard Richter abstract from 1986, «A.B. Courbet,» that was bought by a telephone bidder from Mexico.

At one point during the offering of Lot 12, for example, an ink drawing by Charles Ray (b. 1953), a telephone bidder jumped from $ 300,000 to $ 320,000, leading Mr. Burge to say, «I like that.»

In November, the mystery began with a telephone bidder calling in and winning the bidding...

Even higher was the $ 29.9 million paid by a telephone bidder against determined opposition from the New York dealer Philippe Ségalot for the American artist Christopher Wool's monumental 1990 black and white word painting, «Riot.»

«Drift of Summer,» a 1965 white abstract grid painting by Agnes Martin sold to a telephone bidder for $ 1.4 million, more than double her previous auction record that was set in 1996.

The painting sold to a telephone bidder for $ 27.1 million, above its $ 20 million estimate.

Both paintings sold to telephone bidders.

A telephone bidder went to $ 2.8 million.