Sentence examples for auction scene from inspiring English sources

No wonder prices make little sense on the auction scene.

The German-school artist's appearances on the international auction scene are infrequent.

In the course of the past 30 years, the auction scene has been transformed beyond recognition.

LONDON — Suddenly, contemporary art seems to have dramatically shrunk on the auction scene.

LONDON — The accelerating surge of interest in history came out spectacularly at the auction scene on Wednesday.

Together, the auction scene and the many shops selling antiques were the training ground where connoisseurs were formed.

The past two years in Miami have been a bit more mellow due to the economic downturn, but with the art market looking up after the recent successes of New York's major auction houses, the scene is primed for a 2010 Miami Basel of great parties and even better art viewing.

"Collectors are going after A-level material," John Smiroldo, founder and publisher of Antiques and Fine Art, a bimonthly magazine based in Watertown, Mass., said of the auction and show scenes.

And so just like a used-bong sale in 1978 or a yellow-tie auction in 1990, scenes like this, replicated across the country, bring a psychological decade to a sobering close.

In 1902 the Van Tassell & Kearney auction house was the scene of the sale of Pug, a veteran Central Park police horse.

The second interpolated scene involves the auction of Madame Ranevskaya's estate.