Example sentences of "sotheby 's in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Cross , speaking on behalf of Mr Bond , who bought the picture at Sotheby 's in 1987 , confirmed to The Independent that ‘ Sotheby 's approached us and offered us a loan facility against the picture . ’ |
| 2 | APOTTERY horse ( left ) made in China in the eighth century was sold at Sotheby 's in London yesterday to a Japanese dealer for a £3.7million , a world auction record for any Chinese artefact , writes Donald Wintersgill . |
| 3 | John Lennon 's lyrics for A Day In The Life fetched £44,000 and Paul McCartney 's hit She 's Leaving Home went for £41,000 at Sotheby 's in London . |
| 4 | The fourth auction of twentieth-century German art at Sotheby 's in Berlin realised sales of DM2.88 million ( £1.15 million ; $1.84 million ) , with 43% unsold by value and 36% by lot . |
| 5 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 6 | It was sold at Sotheby 's in 1946 in the first and greatest post-war Phillips sale for £900 . |
| 7 | Most unfortunate was the fate of Pietro Testa 's strange ‘ Birth and infancy of Achilles ’ ( est. $50,000–80,000 ) , bought by Croce at Sotheby 's in 1989 for $37,720 . |
| 8 | We opened a small gallery overlooking the roof tops of Sotheby 's in 1976 . |
| 9 | His interests were not confined to works on paper , but also included tapestries , silver , glass , bronzes and paintings , some of which were offered at auction by Sotheby 's in 1987 . |
| 10 | The picture , a later version of a work in the Louvre , was bought at Sotheby 's in 1985 for £2.2 million and loaned to the National Gallery , London . |
| 11 | Alan Hobart of Pyms Gallery purchased a fine historical composition by John Hamilton Mortimer ( lot 36 , est. £8,000–12,000 ) for £40,000 , but there were no bids for Constable 's unconvincing portrait group of the three Lambert Children ( lot 34 , est. £150,000–200,000 ) which had been purchased by a private collector at Sotheby 's in 1985 for the excessive price of £220,000 . |
| 12 | Failures included two sculptures by Richard Artschwager from Saatchi 's collection ( lots 21 and 66 ) , Anselm Kiefer 's ‘ Des Malers Atelier ’ ( lot 51 ) , and Richard Long 's beautiful and important ‘ Whitechapel Slate Circle ’ ( lot 60 ) , which had been bought by a British collector for his New Jersey estate at Sotheby 's in May 1989 for $190,000 ( £126,667 ) . |
| 13 | The salerooms have not seen such a fine private collection sold since the great suite of sales at Sotheby 's in the 1970s ( the William Goodwin Renwick collection from America , arms released from the Saxon Royal Armouries at Dresden , and the smaller but comparable Gewehrkammer of the Counts von Giech ) . |
| 14 | The sold percentages of Christie 's and Sotheby 's in 1991 averaged just 71% even though reserves had been pushed 20% or so below the boom levels of 1988/89 . |
| 15 | According to Laurentius in fact , twenty-eight of the eighty Rembrandt prints offered for sale by Sotheby 's in the spring sales in New York last May , were late impressions . |
| 16 | The auction houses only offer a limited five-year guarantee ( this was first introduced by Sotheby 's in New York in September 1973 ) . |
| 17 | Sadly , the Belgian State was obliged to let these treasures be auctioned , and they were eventually sold by Sotheby 's in London and at Brussels 's Palais des Beaux-Arts . |
| 18 | This list was sent to UNESCO last September and copies have recently been distributed by UNESCO to the Metropolitan Museum in New York , Sotheby 's in London , the International Foundation for Art Research , Interpol , and the International Council for Museums . |
| 19 | A minor work by the artist , it had been purchased from the sale of Andy Warhol 's property at Sotheby 's in New York exactly four years ago for the exaggerated price of $290,000 . |
| 20 | Four years ago , the same picture was offered at Sotheby 's in New York when it was bought by California collector Martin Blinder for $1.3 million |
| 21 | The involvement of the late Peter Wilson , former Chairman of Sotheby 's in the acquisition of the treasure and the subsequent syndicate set up with dealer Rainer Zietz to offer the treasure to institutions including the Getty , was published in an article by Geraldine Norman and Thomas Hoving in The Independent in December 1991 . |
| 22 | Exquisitely inlaid all over in Chinoiserie decoration in stained horn , mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell and brass with silvered bronze mounts , it is one of only a handful of similar pieces known ( the most recent example sold by Sotheby 's in December 1991 made $875,000 ) . |
| 23 | A fine pair of Louis XVI ormolu–mounted carved ivory vases ( one of only seven pairs known ) sold for $330,000 ( £180,800 ) ( est. $300–400,000 ) and two important Meissen groups previously auctioned by Sotheby 's in the great Wrightsman dispersal sold exceedingly well , both estimated at a fraction of their 1984 prices . |
| 24 | No record prices were achieved , but the overall results of auctions numbers 24 to 26 at the Villa Grisebach on 29 May were satisfactory , as was the third held by Sotheby 's in Berlin . |
| 25 | One exception was De Chirico 's ‘ Natura morta evangelica ’ ( Evangelical still life ) , shown by Malingue , sold by the Museum of Modern Art , New York at Sotheby 's in 1988 for $5.28 million and now priced at $7.5 million . |
| 26 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 27 | Most of these were dispersed in the 1920s : Lord Amherst 's large Egyptian collection was sold at Sotheby 's in 1921 , many pieces being bought by American museums , while Lord Carnarvon sold his collection to the Metropolitan Museum in 1926 for $145,000 ( after teasing the British Museum with a phoney offer ) . |
| 28 | The closer alliance between the two houses ( E. Peel will retain its Spanish board of directors and its current staff ) would result in Spanish works of art consigned to Sotheby 's in other parts of the world being returned to Spain for sale if this is felt to be the best venue . |
| 29 | The two-day sale of Indian , European and Oriental Paintings and works of art organised by Sotheby 's in New Delhi was not an unmitigated success by any means . |
| 30 | Since billionaire A. Alfred Taubman took over Sotheby 's in 1983 , the auction house , closely followed by Christie 's , has become at art retailer rather than a wholesaler . |