Example sentences of "[prep] sotheby be on [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 2 | The important ninth-century Anglo-Saxon jewel found on a beach in Dorset in 1990 and sold at Sotheby 's on 10 December ( see p. 24 ) is a case in point . |
| 3 | Of the oils , four are currently on loan to MoMA including ‘ L'Asie ’ from the collection of the Mollie Parnis Livingston , which made $10 million at Sotheby 's on 10 November ( bought by the Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth ) and ‘ Harmonie jaune ’ which achieved a new world record for a work by the artist at Christie 's on 11 November , selling for $13.2 million against an estimate of $5–7 million . |
| 4 | The Everhart Museum of Scranton , Pennsylvania , has asked the Orphan 's Court for permission to sell Matisse 's ‘ Pink Shrimp ’ ( est. $3–4 million ) , now on view at the MoMA retrospective , at Sotheby 's on 10 November , in order to fund an endowment for operating costs and acquisitions . |
| 5 | George Costakis owns the world 's most distinguished private collection of Russian avant-garde art , and 22 important works from it are being offered for sale at Sotheby 's on 4 April . |
| 6 | The sale of Modern British art at Sotheby 's on 4 November included a surprising number of notable works and attracted a large audience . |
| 7 | The most important oil painting by Goya to appear on the market for two decades will be offered at Sotheby 's on 9 December . |
| 8 | The ‘ Astronomicon ’ sold to the Cassa di Risparmio in Rimini for the Rimini Museum at Sotheby 's on 23 July 1992 for £105,000 against an estimate of £60,000–80,000 . |
| 9 | The American silver sales at Christie 's , on 22 January , and at Sotheby 's on 28 January , seemed to confirm that the last area of the market to give way in the recession was the first to rebound . |
| 10 | At the Victorian picture sales at Sotheby 's on 12 November and Christie 's on 13 November , buyers tended to stay away from works which had been on the market in recent years . |