The auction achieved some of the highest prices ever and consolidated Christie's international reputation.
"I think Damien Hirst is doing spin art!" (In fact, one of Hirst's 100 spin paintings made for the Aids Community Research Institute of America in 2002 would later on in the auction achieve its high presale estimate of $7,000).
Page A27 New York ART HAS A RECORD NIGHT AT SOTHEBY'S AUCTION Sotheby's evening sale, the last of the week's three big-money evening auctions, achieved the company's second highest total for a contemporary art sale ever at $315.8 million, well above its high $270 million estimate.
Although only 17% of the auctions studied achieved greater than 75% of targeted deployment, the reasons identified for lack of implementation are very controllable with proper auction design.
It's a lot more sophisticated than a yacht". On Tuesday, Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a 1969 triptych by Francis Bacon, sold at Christie's after a furious six-minute bidding war for $142.4m, some $20m more than the previous record for a work of art at auction, achieved by Edvard Munch's The Scream at Sotheby's last year.
LONDON — A chorus of praise greeted the "record for an Islamic work of art at auction" achieved when a painted page torn from a royal Iranian manuscript, the Shah-Name or Book of Kings, brought £7.43 million at the Sotheby's auction of the Stuart Cary Welch collection on April 6.
We find that the simultaneous ascending auction achieves the highest levels of efficiency but also has drawbacks: (i) its revenues are low and variable, (ii) per-license profits vary, and (iii) the incidence of winner's curse outcomes is high.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 19 , 1927P. 17 With the sale of the last of the John Quinn collection the auction season achieved its grand climax.
The auction has achieved Ofcom's purpose of promoting strong competition in the 4G mobile market.
The second-highest price of the auction was achieved by a copy of Matilda by Roald Dahl, with new illustrations by Quentin Blake, which sold for £30,000.
