But they secured the auction's priciest lot, a Hopi Crow Mother headdress that sold for $130,000.
To secure the Giacometti for auction, Sotheby's auctioneers would have ensured the seller a payment almost as high, if not higher, than the price Cohen paid.
Desperate to secure the Brody hoard, the auction house had resorted to giving "guarantees" (the procedure commits the auction house to pay consignors a specified amount whether the works sell or not).
The auction to secure the publishing deal for the two books topped $60 million.
It was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.
The test case privacy ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.
Tellingly, at a time when the totals at evening sales of contemporary art are becoming ever-more bloated by financial guarantees — Christie's evening sale of May 13 took in $744.9 million, the highest total in art-auction history — Mr. Dolman was wary of Phillips entering an arms race to secure the most valuable eight-figure auction lots, which can yield auction houses little in the way of profit.
Auction to secure the payment of a certain debt, all that parcel of land upon which said William Crocker resides, situated near the village of Chuckatuck.
The ruling stemmed from a case brought by Mario Costeja González after he failed to secure the deletion of a 1998 auction notice of his repossessed home that was reported in a Spanish newspaper.
In my too-long experience, bankers, brokers and public-relations advisers working for a target company always want the deal to happen - and that all they are really striving to do, underneath the rhetoric of "defending" the company, is to secure the highest price in an auction.
In addition, AT&T Wireless will also be perusing the December 2000 and March 2001 Federal Communications Commission spectrum auctions for bargains, looking to secure the rights to sell wireless services in new territories.
