Word: auctioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony for Dole, of course, is that every effort he makes to win the Florida contest just makes the auction seem more important and thus lifts the bar even higher. So it was dazzling to watch the contortions of his staffers as they tried to lower the expectations they had done so much to raise. Gramm and Alexander, the Dole campaign spin goes, are both Southerners competing on their home field, and anything short of victory for Gramm is a major loss. "We're trying to sort of invade their territory and battle them on message and organization," says Warren...
...pieces are expected to fetch up to $100,000 when they go on sale in Chicago in November. An original Byrne from New York City's CristineRose Gallery will set connoisseurs back $800 to $8,500, while photocopies of Bennett's efforts recently fetched $1,000 at a charity auction. "Look, I just paint," says the man who works under the nom de paintbrush Anthony Benedetto. "I don't try to create masterpieces. I paint, and then I edit." You be the judge. (Hint: Bennett's piece is not the photo of the Tibetan monks...
...unwanted art, is a touchy and politically sensitive process that is traditionally done quietly and piecemeal so as not to offend donors of the jettisoned works or scare off potential benefactors. "There's a worry about agitating the public," says Neubert. The crowd that gathered at Denver's auction, however, seemed excited only about bidding up the prices. From the opening gavel of what amounted to a nine-hour garage sale, buyers in the museum's main hall sought to outbid one another on 630 lots that ranged from ivory figurines and a Flemish tapestry to a rococo revival cabinet...
...artist Edgar Britton, for which he successfully bid $1,700. Art dealer Charles Angelucci, on his cellular phone to clients as he bid, exulted over a Thomas Sully family portrait that he bought for $3,000. That was $2,000 under the estimate by Christie's, which conducted the auction and took a 15% commission off the gross...
...sale. A handful were furious at the low prices attached to family heirlooms. Denver art historian Ursula Works discovered that a sculpture by her father, donated in 1929, was being sold. Aghast that it was valued at a mere $300 to $500, she and her husband went to the auction and bought it back--not before fighting off others to the tune of $1,400. "We didn't want to see it used as a doorstop or sold as scrap," she said...