Sentence examples for record-breaking prices from inspiring English sources

But once decided upon, the artworks were acquired swiftly: Holloway bought 77 paintings between 1881 and 1883, most of them purchased at auction, several for record-breaking prices.

Only a few years ago, the collectors' market for contemporary design was dominated by the record-breaking prices paid at auction for trophy furniture by "design-art" stars such as Marc Newson and Ron Arad.

For instance, at a new development on the former Upsala College campus in East Orange, 45 of 51 single-family homes have sold in the last year, for $439,000 to $600,000 — record-breaking prices for the community.

Before Thursday night's sale at Phillips de Pury & Company, the auction giants Sotheby's and Christie's had together sold nearly $1 billion worth of contemporary work by tried-and-true artists including Rothko and Warhol, Pollock and Kline — much of it for record-breaking prices.

While Christie's acquired Haunch, Sotheby's went public with the one-off primary auction, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", which sold work by Damien Hirst straight out of his studio (some of it not even finished) for record-breaking prices in September 2008, just as Lehman Brothers went under and the financial crisis got going in earnest.

Renewed interest in his work (which peaked in the 1950's) was apparent at the May 16 auction of 203 of his designs at Christie's in Los Angeles; the bureaus, dinner plates, magazine racks and hand-painted bathroom fixtures sold for record-breaking prices -- sometimes five times the estimates.

They had hoped to get a record-breaking price.

The magic of Mr. Clapton's name and the timing of last fall's auction, which came on the heels of a blockbuster Richter retrospective that went to Berlin, London and Paris, accounted for the record-breaking price.

THE travails of the Speyers are not that different from those of other investors who poured ever-larger sums into real estate during that delirious period when every day seemed to bring another gigantic deal at a record-breaking price.

Earlier this year, Basquiat's "Head of a Madman" came back on the market, and sold at Sotheby's in London for nine million dollars — three million less than its record-breaking price.

The controversial Walkie Talkie tower in the City of London has commanded a record-breaking price for a single building in the UK – £1.3bn in a sale to a Hong Kong manufacturer of oyster sauce.