Sentence examples for auction achieved from inspiring English sources

The auction achieved some of the highest prices ever and consolidated Christie's international reputation.

LONDON — A chorus of praise greeted the "record for an Islamic work of art at auction" achieved when a painted page torn from a royal Iranian manuscript, the Shah-Name or Book of Kings, brought £7.43 million at the Sotheby's auction of the Stuart Cary Welch collection on April 6.

We find that the simultaneous ascending auction achieves the highest levels of efficiency but also has drawbacks: (i) its revenues are low and variable, (ii) per-license profits vary, and (iii) the incidence of winner's curse outcomes is high.

"I think Damien Hirst is doing spin art!" (In fact, one of Hirst's 100 spin paintings made for the Aids Community Research Institute of America in 2002 would later on in the auction achieve its high presale estimate of $7,000).

The auctions achieved solid prices.

Page A27 New York ART HAS A RECORD NIGHT AT SOTHEBY'S AUCTION Sotheby's evening sale, the last of the week's three big-money evening auctions, achieved the company's second highest total for a contemporary art sale ever at $315.8 million, well above its high $270 million estimate.

It would be difficult to make an argument based on aesthetics to account for the world auction record achieved at Christie's by Piero Manzoni's "Achrome".

By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 19 , 1927P. 17 With the sale of the last of the John Quinn collection the auction season achieved its grand climax.

The £6.8m auction price achieved in July for The Garden of Eden With the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder was double the estimate – probably inflated by media hype – and it will now apparently take more to prevent the painting going abroad.

The auction has achieved Ofcom's purpose of promoting strong competition in the 4G mobile market.

Richert's masterpiece has set a new record in New York for the highest auction price achieved by a work by a living artist.