Yet the creative business maneuvers adopted by the auction houses to land big consignments and encourage buyers speak of desperation.
To land the consignment, Christie's gave the Rachofskys a guarantee -- an undisclosed sum promised regardless of the outcome of the sale -- that contemporary art experts familiar with the deal estimated at $25 million.
At a stroke that would undercut a major source of corruption and crime (both on land and at sea) that spills into neighbouring countries, the destination for smuggled consignments of cheap Nigerian fuel.
Osborne records that society in graphic detail: nothing in the play is finer than the preacher's vicious verbal assault on Huw when he threatens him with consignment to "lost darkness in the well of the dead land between earth and heaven".
Ms Diep's Roller arrived two months after the first consignment of Porsches landed in Vietnam.
I'm outlawing consignments.
Our consignments come from everywhere".
Most heroin consignments appear to travel overland.
While consignments have been delayed they have not been lost.
Auction houses use guarantees to compete for coveted consignments.
