Example sentences of "at christie be on [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George de la Tour 's ‘ Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player ’ , bought by Agnew 's at Christie 's on 13 December for £1,870,000 , is to join the collection at the Prado . |
| 2 | Recently bought by a dealer for £5,000 in a local auction , it sold at Christie 's on 1 April for £34,000 ( $51,000 ; est. £10,000–15,000 ) , bought by a private art consultant , underbid by Blairman |
| 3 | After an elegant supper given by the Racing and Breeding Fine Arts Fund at Christie 's on 1 June , forty ‘ Colourmasters ’ were auctioned , raising in total £128,000 in aid of more than thirty charities including Racing Welfare , the Equine Fertility Endowment Appeal , the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind , Crusaid and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 4 | He left his pictures to his nephew , Thomas Hankey of Bedford Square : these were sold at Christie 's on 7–8 June 1799 . |
| 5 | The so-called Trausnitz Venus , which was offered for sale at Christie 's on 10 December but failed to raise a single bid , has now been bought by the National Gallery in Washington . |
| 6 | Those who fecklessly pay huge sums for grimy canvases would be wise to study the results of the Dr Carlo Croce collection at Christie 's on 14 January . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Continental ceramics including Meissen Porcelain from the Korthaus Collection at Christie 's on 21 September produced good results despite the high estimates . |
| 9 | This was bought-in at £6 million at Christie 's on 15 April , largely because the estimate was considered to be too high for what one expert commented was ‘ an early , dark , Leyden-period picture , which is at variance with what people want and expect in Rembrandt . |