On a recent Saturday, would-be consignors and bidders kept stopping by, asking one another what had happened and peering through dusty glass at a few chrome tables and abstract paintings with auction tags still attached.
Bright pink auction tags were everywhere, from ground level to the rooftop boxes, and the public was free to wander as never before — into the jockeys' locker rooms and sauna, the members-only Turf Club, the paddocks.
By Patricia Marx The New Yorker, December 11 , 1989P. 46 Talk story about the Transit Authority's Second Annual Auction and Tag Sale, held last month at the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn.
Until now "The Scream" by Edvard Munch held the top spot for highest auction price tag; it sold at Sotheby's in 2012 for almost $120 million.
So when his father, Jamal, headed out the door to hunt for bargains at a nearby weekly used car auction, he begged to tag along.
He bought the Tyumen oil company in a 1996 auction - its $1bn price tag was hailed as the first fair price for a Russian oil company.
But it was the most talked about piece in the auction, and the price tag more than doubled.
Some of his beds, desks and chairs, piled in an outbuilding, still have their price tags and auction markings.
After all, if the major institutions continue to buy and exhibit only the blockbuster artists that currently fetch the biggest price tags at auction, then women will never get a look-in.
Banksy hasn't said much since not one, but three of his murals were ripped from their original outdoor locations and shipped to auction with hefty price tags.
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