Sentences with phrase «telephone bidder who»

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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.

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 least 10 bidders in the packed room and on telephones tried to buy the 2015 mixed - media and collage abstract «Smear» by Mark Bradford, who now mainly paints for museums and whose works are virtually unobtainable from galleries.

The work, which was backed by Christie's, fetched $ 28.2 million, with just one bidder, a telephone client of Loic Gouzer, who was recently promoted to deputy chairman of Christie's postwar and contemporary department.