Sentence examples for picture sales from inspiring English sources

In Time, Nancy Gibbs painted this picture: "Sales of sewing machines, the perfect apocalypse accessory, are way up.

[C3.] A MIXED ECONOMIC PICTURE Sales of new homes rose slightly in September, but they remained near the lowest level in a decade.

She was also immensely practical, working as a secretary, delivering mail or in a fish cannery when they needed funds, and handling his picture sales.

As more first-time buyers have entered the picture, sales of studios and one-bedrooms have jumped four percentage points, exceeding 52 percent of the market in the third quarter compared with a year ago.

And after the awards ceremony last March (and even though "Moulin Rouge" was not chosen as best picture) sales jumped to 200,000 units the next week, Mr. Dunn said.

The painting has been sent for auction by the Northamptonshire firm JP Humbert, which handled the "bonnet picture" sale.

Felix Tournachon, called "Nadar", Paris, to whom Manet presented the picture (sale, Nadar, Paris, Nov. 11-12, 1895, no. 60); Auguste Pellerin; Eduard Arnhold, Berlin by 1902; Stephen Carlton Clark, New York.

Christie handled the greatest country house picture sale of the 18th century, in which the pictures from Sir Robert Walpole's collection at Houghton Hall were sold privately to Catherine the Great in 1779 for the then-record price of £40,000.

At a fashionable London picture sale, a story about the amorous provenance of a certain locket is told "for the amusement of the whole room" by "a party of fashionables".

It was one of the last examples or purely hermetic Cubism that Picasso painted, though both he and Braque moved from there into synthetic Cubism, led by Juan Gris, as the final example of the space-time continuum that the original Cubism had led to - or so Kahnweiler said a quarter of a century later, after the sad picture sale.

Europe presented a brighter picture where sales rose, with Italy, Germany and Spain particularly strong.