Sentence examples for bidding match from inspiring English sources

Seurat's rare masterpiece did not prompt the bidding match one might have expected.

Not even Picasso's "Femme au chien" succeeded in goading the attendance into a serious bidding match.

At the end of a sustained bidding match, the room broke out in applause.

Very harmonious and in superb condition, "Les Pommes" triggered a long bidding match, fought anonymously over the telephone.

But a landscape dated 1991, "Mornington Crescent — Summer Morning," triggered a bidding match that sent it climbing to a steep £2.28 million.

A bidding match fought over the telephone sent the picture climbing to £80,500, two and a half times the high estimate.

This characteristic image was enough to trigger one of the most extraordinary bidding matches seen at auction in the last decade.

When his large "Tête sans Crâne," 43.5 centimeters high, or 17 inches, came up, it triggered one of the very few bidding matches witnessed that evening.

Christopher Burge, who conducted the session with exceptional brio, brought down his hammer on the $77.5 million winning bid after one of the longest bidding matches yet witnessed in a contemporary art sale.

In stark contrast to Sotheby's session, the most remarkable pictures triggered furious bidding matches involving multiple contenders.

The bid matches the value of the player's buy-out clause so the ball is now in his court.