How To Use Auction house In A Sentence
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The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal.
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Someday soon a Chinese ink painting is going to outsell Picasso," said Joe Lin-Hill , an emerging-markets professor at Sotheby's Institute of Art, a graduate school run by an affiliate of the auction house.
The China Factor
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Prices were up for all of the auction house's major art categories, including £ 766.6 million in Impressionist and modern art, up 53% from 2009; ₤ £ 602.6 million in post-war and contemporary art, up 148%; ₤ £ 569.6 million in Asian art, up 145%; and ₤ £ 334.2 million in jewelry, jadeite and watches, up 55%.
Jump in Art Sales at Christie's Points to Market Rebound
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It is safest to buy watches and clocks from reputable dealers or auction houses.
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The auction houses photographic department phone is 212-606-7240.
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As a result of a title claim brought by Dennis Hopper's estranged wife, Christie's must withdraw 32 items from the sale until such time as the title claim is resolved," said a spokeswoman for the auction house last night.
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When Ebay bought the successful Chinese internet auction house Eachnet they made a good bet.
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The sale is a big coup for the auction house.
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Forbes recently scoured the art world to find out, spending weeks consulting with collectors, art appraisers, insurers, auction houses and gallery owners around the globe.
Top Billionaire Art Collectors
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Six-foot-five, wickedly charming and patricianly handsome, he had been the consummate "extra man," a skilled practitioner of "the night shift," as he called his after-hours life on the benefit, dinner party and opera circuit, which he pursued full-throttle, as his employers encouraged him to do, for the connections he made there brought the auction house some of its best sales.
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Established booksellers and auction houses take steps to ensure that books and signatures are what they claim to be.
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Right: A Christie's auction house guard stands next to the Rothschild Faberge egg at Christie's in London, Britain, Oct. 4, 2007.
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World Golf opened in mid-December in Sherman Oaks, in a brick building that once was an auction house.
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After packing in his job at the auction house to become an insurance clerk, he had more money to spare and bought more turkeys.
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Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house.
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The deeper problems in the art market have to do with the depredations of the auction houses.
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Now a rare silver porringer - a small dish for soup or porridge - inscribed with the words ‘The gift of Sir Thomas Herbert’ is coming up for sale at the London auction house on October 11.
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Relics from a golden age of flight when Zeppelins and airships ruled the skies have been on sale at a Swindon auction house.
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Finding an old water mill to recommission generally means scouring the listings of rural estate agents and auction houses.
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The seller and buyer may arrange the commission rate with the auction house.
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The archaeological and historic value of the arm ring is its prime importance but its financial value will be determined by a panel of three experts from London auction houses.
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World Golf opened in mid-December in Sherman Oaks, in a brick building that once was an auction house.
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You can also buy and sell at specialist dealers and at auction houses.
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As for the fidelity of the reproductions, Roe said the prints have even fooled auction house experts.
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The collection, which also includes barometers and valuable horological textbooks, goes under the hammer on December 7 at Christie's King Street auction house in London.
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According to Christie's auction house, which is selling the work, the painting is one of just a handful of direct depictions of Nonsuch.
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Head to your local auction house for classic furniture that won't go out of fashion.
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This piece was followed by a post by Jerry Saltz on his Facebook page in which he exalted Thornton's criticism and jokingly suggested that the White Collar Crimes division of the FBI conduct an investigation of the auction houses - a call that is perhaps a bit sensationalist and overemotional when, in the same breath, Saltz states that he is in favor of an unregulated market.
Stephanie Adamowicz: Recap of "Carte Blanche" at Phillips de Pury
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Only the consignor and the auction house know the reserve.
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For a special piece, good hunting grounds include auction houses and charity shops.
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The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.
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World Warcraft did not invent the auction house trading system.
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Brodsky countered that the broadening of the auction houses' public accountability could only help the market.
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It cost $ 93, 500 at an auction house.
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You can set a reserve price to protect you, but take advice from the auction house or the cars might remain unsold.
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A new series based around historical artefacts that appear in auction houses up and down the country.
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Local antique dealers and auction houses might give you a free valuation.
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In Copenhagen, the shop Dansk Mobelkunst and the auction house Bruun Rasmussen. jacksons.se , modernity.se , bukoskis.com , aerodesignfurniture.fi , hagelstam.fi , dmk.dk , bruun-rasmussen.dk
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The quality of online cataloguing varies between auction houses.
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Two beautifully sculpted guards stood outside the doors of Christie's auction house yesterday, armed with stanchions and a counter, ready to receive the crowd that would be arriving at part two of the Yves Saint Laurent sale, featuring his furniture and home furnishings from his weekend home in Deauville situated in the Basse-Normandie region of France.
Yomi Abiola: Yves Saint Laurent's Final Sale
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The sale is a big coup for the auction house.
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Most people who collect art just want generic examples of an artist's work and get confused when non-typical examples are fobbed off on them by dealers and auction houses.
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If museums and established auction houses can mistake fakes for genuine articles, so can you.
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The auction houses quite wisely retreated, leaving specialist dealers bemoaning what they alleged were short-sighted policies.
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In addition to fashion, Bond Street is also renowned for its auction houses and for its fine art galleries.
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Stacked items for sale at the auction house now display the per unit price and per unit buyout price in the item mouseover.
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They may fetch 7,000 in some auction houses here.
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Both buyer and seller pay the auction house a considerable commission for effecting the transaction.
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Other auction houses dismiss this as a theatrical gesture, aimed at making bidders in the saleroom feel they are connected to the whole planet.
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The purchase was made under the guidance of Peter Silverman, a Canadian collector who has a reputation in the business (though he dislikes the term) as a "picker" - someone who scours auction houses for undervalued works.
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But the most important figure is what the auction houses expect to make from their sale.
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It is a list of contemporary art that would have the staff of any auction house drooling with envy.
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In respect that behind the prosperous of contemporary art market is the collusion and cooperation among galleries, auction houses, collectors and so on.
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Since then Sotheby's business has spread into less traditional auction house areas, including real estate.
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For a special piece, good hunting grounds include auction houses and charity shops.
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He couldn't buy more than he already had, without having to take some of the items to other pawnshops or to auction houses.
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An antique peanut roaster that he'd bought for $250, and that failed to sell at the mall or at local auction, went for $2,950 at an online auction house.
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The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
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Is Phillips getting to parts that other auction houses can not reach?
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After packing in his job at the auction house to become an insurance clerk, he had more money to spare and bought more turkeys.
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Simply trusting established art galleries or auction houses is nice, but it is an insufficient protection.
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Matisse's "Femme couchee", estimated at 3. 5-5.5 million pounds, is a magnificent example of the artist's favourite subject - that of a reclining woman in an interior - and this theme relates closely to his celebrated Odalisques series from the 1920s, the auction house said.
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World Golf opened in mid-December in Sherman Oaks, in a brick building that once was an auction house.
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Auction houses have an obligation to the vendor and are unlikely to allow anything to be sold for less than cost.
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To prevent this, international auction houses and sellers are tightening policies and enforcing stricter rules about who can bid and when they will pay.
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Particularly in New York, many of the auction houses look intimidating.
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The levels of the cordate are: tombarolo or looter; capo zona who runs the tombaroli in a specific region; middle man (the actual smuggler); the "Swiss" dealer; the auction house (or the link-man, a Robert Hecht-type figure); the collector; the academic "authenticator"; and the museum curator.
Exposing the Culture Thieves
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The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal.
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They may fetch 7,000 in some auction houses here.
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It is safest to buy watches and clocks from reputable dealers or auction houses.
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The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.
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The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house.
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With the number of those unafraid to approach fairs and auction houses growing and fewer feeling the need to consult dealers and advisors in galleries, it's not hard to realise that confidence in personal artistic choices within individuals is rising.
Constantin Bjerke: Roll Over Frieze - Multiplied Contemporary Editions Fair at Christie's
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The London auction house set to sell the painting said it had withdrawn the picture from sale immediately.
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The auction house has so far resisted suggestions that it acted improperly in selling the painting, which it says it acquired from a reputable Paris dealer after the war.
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A Warlock would bring a pet to Molten Core, have it get hit with a DoT bomb (from Boss Geddon I believe), leave the instance, hit a major hub (like Ironforge Auction House), resummon the pet that still had the DoT and just let the bomb go off.
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The six unedited reel-to-reel tapes -- "pre-master" originals from the private collection of the studio engineer who recorded them, are valued at between $30,000 and $50,000, according to international auction house Bonhams & Butterfields.
November 2004
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The most obvious weakness of such techniques in practice is the worry that the auction house, which earns a revenue proportional to gross auction receipts, will use the information to push up prices by inserting fake bidders.
EBay, Fun, and Social Waste, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Since then Sotheby's business has spread into less traditional auction house areas, including real estate.
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A tooth that was allegedly yanked from Napoleon Bonaparte's pie hole will go up for auction next week at the Dominic Winter auction house in Swindon, England.
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Venerable British auction house Christie's is selling a case of what has been called the classiest wine in the world: Chateau Lafite 1982.
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The auction houses may anticipate an effect on prices, although early and late impressions are already clearly differentiated in catalogue descriptions.
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The auction house had expected ￡3 million from the sale - it got ￡10 million.
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Both buyer and seller pay the auction house a considerable commission for effecting the transaction.
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We follow the major auction house results pretty astutely.
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Presale estimates are proposed by the auction houses for the hammer prices, exclusive of commissions.
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It is a list of contemporary art that would have the staff of any auction house drooling with envy.
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In addition to fashion, Bond Street is also renowned for its auction houses and for its fine art galleries.
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The auction house is also selling sets of highly collectable Chateau Mouton Rothschild, which selects different artists each year to design its label.
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There wasn't much food or water outside the main port cities where the Guild happens to have auction houses.
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The auction houses may anticipate an effect on prices, although early and late impressions are already clearly differentiated in catalogue descriptions.
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According to the auction house, seven bidders were chasing the painting.
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The quality of online cataloguing varies between auction houses.
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After packing in his job at the auction house to become an insurance clerk, he had more money to spare and bought more turkeys.
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The auction house had been assured by their legal advisors that the current owners of the work had legal entitlement.
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Totals for the biannual, two-week-long period of sales at the three major auction houses met or exceeded expectations, as customers packed the salesrooms and bought more than $400 million worth of art.
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A new series based around historical artefacts that appear in auction houses up and down the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The quality of online cataloguing varies between auction houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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After packing in his job at the auction house to become an insurance clerk, he had more money to spare and bought more turkeys.
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It's the city's largest auction house.
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Brodsky countered that the broadening of the auction houses' public accountability could only help the market.
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As a result of a title claim," the London-based auction house said in an e-mailed statement before the sale started, "Christie's must withdraw 32 items from the sale until such time as the title claim is resolved.
Christie's Withdraws Dennis Hopper Lots on Court Claim; Mao Makes $302,500 - Bloomberg
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It is a list of contemporary art that would have the staff of any auction house drooling with envy.
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It is safest to buy watches and clocks from reputable dealers or auction houses.
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