(The highest estimate was 6.8 percent).
Phillips's numbers would have been stronger had the work with the highest estimate sold.
Dr. Hagan's was the highest estimate and the one on which Save Darfur based its claim.
Last month, Sotheby's in London sold Lucian Freud's Pregnant Girl for £16.1m, far above the highest estimate.
Earnings were 3 cents a share higher than the highest estimate from 19 analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial.
(A Peyton work was auctioned last month at Christie's for $70,500, more than double the house's highest estimate).
GE's plastics unit fetched over $1 billion more than the highest estimate of its value.
The painting with the highest estimate in the sale, Mark Rothko's "Untitled (White, Yellow, Red on Yellow)," from 1953, failed to sell.
In the highest estimate yet, the commission said the project would cost taxpayers $590 million -- $200 million more than it was supposed to.
The work with the sale's highest estimate -- and one that dealers and collectors had been speculating about for weeks -- was a Gauguin from the artist's Tahitian period.
Its highest estimate, of the proportion of badgers that this represented in the west and south-west of England, was 79%.
