Sentences with phrase «telephone bidders fought»

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.

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.

, 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.

Not exact matches

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.