But he wasn't a celebrity until one of his paintings
sold at auction for # 5.7 m in 2007, four times its expected price.
It went for $ 6.5 million, and it was believed then to be the most expensive car
ever sold at auction.
The list is comprised of the ten highest value lots by a single artist
sold at auction in the decade from 2005 to 2015.
The report gives some interesting insight into the situation of contemporary
art sold at auctions worldwide.
The vehicle is
then sold at an auction, and whatever amount the bank can't recover becomes the deficiency that you now owe.
A
home sold at auction: These auctions are typically handled by a sheriff or other trustee and can occur on courthouse steps, in a convention center, or at the property itself.
Considering that the last Still painting to
sell at auction went for more than $ 3 million, the gift of 2,000 plus works represents a colossal asset.
The
dogs sold at auction above were sold to other breeders who will continue the cycle of repeated breeding for more years.
Should your
entry sell at auction, we will charge our standard seller's commission based on the hammer price your entry has achieved.
For example, if you had a mortgage of $ 200,000 and the property was
sold at auction for $ 150,000, you would receive a 1099 showing income of $ 50,000.
Works sold at the auction last night were by: Sir Anthony Caro, Nathan Coley, Tracey Emin, Sean Henry, Nika Neelova, Yinka Shonibare, Gillian Wearing and Jonathan Yeo.
Koons also holds the record for the most expensive work ever
sold at auction by a living artist — Balloon Dog (Orange), 1994 - 2000 sold in 2013 for an extraordinary $ 58.4 million at Christie's.
Hotel magnate Elaine Wynn was apparently the one behind the $ 142m buy of Three Studies of Lucian Freud painting by Francis Bacon in 2013, the most expensive artwork
sold at auction at that point.
Geadell, Colin, «Market News», Daily Telegraph, 26 March 2001 (history of two important sketch - books containing 34 drawings allegedly stolen from the artist's family in the 1970s and
recently sold at auction in London)
When sold at auction in 2012 for about $ 50 million, this GTO was the most valuable automobile in the world.
The world got its new most expensive painting ever
sold at an auction on November 15th, at Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
This spring the auction house broke the world record for the most expensive diamond ever
sold at auction with the $ 71.2 million sale of the «Pink Star» diamond.
Securities issued by the U.S. Government that mature within a year and are
usually sold at auction at less than their face value.
It is not often that Sotheby's or Christie's thrusts a young contemporary artist, whose works they have never
sold at auction before, into the limelight of a select evening sale.
This year the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti broke the record for a
sculpture sold at auction when L'Homme au Doigt fetched $ 141.3 million (# 90 million) in New York.
At a total of around 2,000 objects (of which only 150 to 200 have so far been located), Budge's was one of the largest private
collections sold at auction during the Third Reich.
Francis Bacon himself had used the photograph in painting the triptych «Three Studies of Lucian Freud» 1969, which last year become the most expensive artwork ever
sold at an auction after fetching $ 142m.
If your
car sold at auction for less than what you owed on the loan, you must still pay the remaining balance to your lender.
One of the «Miracle on Ice» medals from the 1980 Team USA hockey team was expected to fetch $ 1.5 to 2 million, but it failed to
sell at auction earlier this summer.
Other works of note
sold at the auction included an Andy Warhol «Triple Elvis» for $ 73 million, Cindy Sherman's «Untitled Film Stills» for $ 5.9 million and an untitled Cy Twombly painting executed in gray oil - based house paint for $ 62 million.
The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed Thursday that more than 3,600
bitcoin sold at auction in January have been successfully transferred to five winning bidders.