Sentence examples for fetched by from inspiring English sources

The price fetched by the instantly recognisable Warhol "product" will have encouraged many of today's young artists.

Later, the same price was fetched by a still life of peonies painted by Matisse in 1907.

Even more revealing about the buyers' eagerness were some of the prices fetched by 20th-century artists.

All the region's governments mourn the end of the stockmarket boom and the prices once fetched by telecoms and energy companies.

It was the high price fetched by Nortel's patents that opened the eyes of Motorola's directors, people briefed on the matter said.

Any painting set in the concrete of history will go for prices very far above those otherwise fetched by works by the same artist, regardless of school.

In the United States, Guadet retails between $25 and $40 a bottle, far below the hundreds or even thousands fetched by elite Bordeaux wines.

In May, his Orange, Red, Yellow was sold in New York for $86.9m£53.8m8m) – the highest price ever fetched by a piece of contemporary art at auction.

He has been called a sellout and a traitor whose arguments are "baseless" and "far-fetched" by professors at New York University, Harvard, and Georgetown.

A film featuring racy sex scenes, the sinking of the Titanic and portrayals of Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock and James Joyce might be dismissed as too far-fetched by Hollywood standards.

The idea that other places might take their lead from Kalamazoo isn't far-fetched: by November 2006, a year after the Promise was made, seven other Promise-like programs had been started or announced, from Ventura, Calif., to Garrett County, Md. Six more were started the year after that.