Sentences with phrase «top auction lots»

Information obtained from the top auction lots (medium, composition, color, and scale) yielded a set of instructions that the artist used to produce his paintings.

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The auction's «never before, never again» wine lots were crafted by top vintners from Sonoma County's 17 distinct AVA appellations, and offered in quantities of five, 10 or 20 cases.

Top lots at today's auction included Italics Winegrowers, Memento Mori, Nine Suns, Realm Cellars, Rombauer Vineyards, Shafer Vineyards, TOR Kenward Family, Duckhorn Vineyards, Silver Oak Cellars and ZD Wines.

The auction's top - seller was Lot 209, a 1964 DB5, the only DB5 at the event.

The stars of the sale were undoubtedly the 11 lots contained in the «Exclusively Porsche — the 964 Collection» subgrouping, with the 1993 911 Carrera RS 3.8 blowing away its top - end estimate of $ 1.5 million and setting a new record for a 964 sold at public auction.

* Top literary agents can get their phone calls and emails to publishers returned promptly, pitch your book face - to - face (possibly with you there), submit your work to many publishers simultaneously, and hold an auction (resulting in more money, more publicity, and your deal getting done a lot faster).

But when Maezawa chose the same auction week in May 2016 to spend hefty sums on a number of other top lots as well — $ 13.9 million on a Christopher Wool, $ 9.7 million on Richard Prince's Runaway Nurse, $ 6.9 million on Jeff Koons's Lobster — he worked the elder collector class into a frenzy.

«Steve» by Barkley L. Hendricks covers the catalog and is the auction's top - selling lot, selling for $ 365,000 (including fees), a record price for Hendricks and more than double its high estimate.

Our top lot Norman Lewis» «Block Island» was his first 1970s oil on canvas to come to auction.

Top lots at Swann's auction last month included Faith Ringgold's «Double Dutch on the Golden Gate Bridge,» 1988 (acrylic on canvas with painted, dyed and pieced fabric).

It was the top lot of the sale, setting a world auction record for Basquiat.

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.

With 90 per cent sold by lot and 96 per cent sold by value, the auction confirmed Christie's ability to read the continuing evolution of the global market, achieving top prices for young talent, celebrated mid-career artists and established post-war masters alike.

Christie's achieved seven of the top ten auction prices for the season across all houses, underlining its leading position in the market — a status confirmed by strong overall sell - through rates of 82 per cent by value and 81 per cent by lot.

Of the top 50 contemporary auction lots by living artists sold at Christie's and Sotheby's in China, New York and London in 2015, only four were by women — a mere 8 %.

Top lots announced for New York sales The familiar scramble between auction houses to secure bragging rights in the lead up to a major series is firmly underway for this May's season of Impressionist, modern and contemporary auctions in New York.

The top lot was «Four Marilyn (Reversal Series, Black / White),» Lot 286, by Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), whose works have been very popular this auction seaslot was «Four Marilyn (Reversal Series, Black / White),» Lot 286, by Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), whose works have been very popular this auction seasLot 286, by Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), whose works have been very popular this auction season.

The auction, which has many top - quality lots, also has good works by Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997), Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968) and Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987).

After the auction, Tobias Meyer, the auctioneer commented that nine of the top lots were purchased by «private Americans» and noted that museums are now «building galleries» rather than making acquisitions a priority.

The star of this auction is Lot 31, «No. 2 (Blue, Red and Green,» an 81 - by - 67 1/8 - inch oil on canvas, shown at the top of this article, by Mark Rothko that was executed in 1953 and has an estimate of $ 8,000,000 to $ 10,000.

Promising Print Week — The auction of prints and multiples at Christie's this week brought in a $ 10.3 million total, selling 91 percent by lot, with the top sale going to Andy Warhol for a complete set of ten Campbell's Soup screenprints from 1968, which sold for $ 411,750.

With a several top - end masterpieces, this auction had its value estimated at $ 129,607,905 — $ 181,514,098, with the average lot price over $ 2 million.

The painting covers the sales catalog and was the auction's top - selling lot.

The commission had its origins in the acquisition of another painting in this auction, Lot 35, shown at the top of this article, «Brown and Blacks in Reds,» by Phyllis Lambert, an architect and member of the Bronfman family that was the majority owner of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons.

Because of the decline in auction houses guarantees, said Neal Meltzer, a New York art adviser, «a lot of top - quality material has shifted to the dealers.»

The top lot was Will Cotton's Taffy Forest, which went for a final hammer price of $ 272,500, setting an auction record for Mr. Cotton.

The sale totaled $ 2.5 M, with five of the top lots breaking previous auction records, all of which were set by Swann since the department's inception ten years ago.

Frederick Hammersley's Adjective (1966)(Lot 309, est. $ 60,000 — 90,000) brought $ 100,000, a new world auction record for the artist — exceeding his past eight top prices, all set by LAMA.

Top collectors and art advisers receive (or have had) advance notice of lots they may like or an early look at the auction catalogs.

High - end science fiction artwork is expected to take top lot honors as Frank Frazetta's Red Planet, 1974 (est. $ 150,000 +), crosses the block barely two months after Heritage set a seven - figure world auction record for the artist.

The top lot was Sir Isaac Newton's (1642 - 1727) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (estimate: $ 1,000,000 - 1,500,000), which realized $ 3,719,500, nearly four times its low estimate and setting a new world auction record for a printed scientific book.

The top six lots in the auction totaled over $ 1 million.

A large - scale canvas by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) was the top lot at Sotheby's contemporary art auction last week.

The Dec. 15 auction featured seven Lewis works, including the sale's top lot, an oil on canvas painting executed in a limited beige palette, estimated to sell for $ 250,000 - $ 350,000.

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Though Sigmar Polke's Roter Fisch (Red Fish) was projected to be the top lot of the evening with a # 3.5 - 4.5 M estimate, Jenny Saville's Shift shocked the room as it tripled the # 1.5 - 2M estimate, selling for # 6.8 M ($ 9M) and setting a new auction record for the artist.

A superbly colorful and remarkably well - preserved American hand - carved Cigar Store Indian, which had sat in a Washington, D.C. - area basement for at least 20 years, brought a world record public auction price of $ 203,150 on May 22 as the top lot in Heritage Auction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana Aauction price of $ 203,150 on May 22 as the top lot in Heritage Auction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana AAuction Galleries» Grand Format Political & Americana AuctionAuction.

The result was an auction record for the fashionable Romanian - born artist and the top lot of the week for Christie's.

Lucio Fontana's egg - shaped painting sold by billionaire Steven A. Cohen fetched $ 29.2 million Tuesday evening, one of the top three lots auctioned at Christie's where bidders showed restraint for overpriced works.

The top lot of the night was «No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange),» an almost 8 - foot - tall 1951 painting by Rothko that had previously never come to auction.

Similar to last week's Impressionist and modern art auctions, Asian collectors competed fiercely, winning at least two of the top 10 lots, Christie's said.

The top lot of the sales, The entrance to the Turkish Garden Café by Louis Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845) was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum for $ 4,562,500, setting a new world auction record for a work by the artist.

The top lot, Newman's 1961 abstract canvas that until recently was on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, fetched $ 84.14 million, almost doubling the artist's previous auction record of $ 43.8 million set just a year ago.

A single work — Henry Moore's curvaceous, monumental bronze — realized almost as much, 24.7 million pounds, an auction record for the British sculptor and the top lot of a special auction marking the company's 250th anniversary.

True, sellers remain reticent, with noticeably fewer top quality artworks at Sotheby's and Christie's, but New York auction receipts are significantly up (Sotheby's by 300 percent over 2009) and even if most lots are selling within their heavily reduced pre-sale estimates, interest is slowly beginning to build.

The works featured below reflect the current auction market — the top 25 lots by black artists from 2014 - 2016, the highest price achieved by each artist during the period.

> «Pork,» 1981 painting (right) executed by Jean - Michel Basquiat on a wood door was the top lot at Chrisitie's London auction, selling for $ 6.8 million.

Including the Nauman, the Collection of a Fortune 500 Company accounted for the top five lots in the auction, and seven of the top 10 lots total, with Helen Frankenthaler's stormy acrylic on canvas, Quattrocento, 1984, coming in as the second highest lot in the auction when it brought $ 346,550 against a pre-auction estimate of $ 150,000 +, while Richard Diebenkorn's etching Green, 1986, widely regarded as one of the artist's finest etchings, performed solidly with a $ 262,900 total, exceeding its $ 200,000 + pre-auction expectations.

Including fees, the painting yielded $ 387,500, and was the top lot of the auction.

Top lots feature at the contemporary - art evening sale on Nov. 30 and the antique auction on Dec. 3 -LSB-...]