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1 Sotheby 's 9 December sale totalled £10.8 million with premium , 63% sold by lot , 73.8% by value , Christie 's on 11 December £14.9 million with premium , 67.4% by lot , 83% by value .
2 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 .
3 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
4 The Continental ceramics sales at Christie 's and Sotheby 's on 1 March and 2 March continued to demonstrate the basic soundness and stability of this field .
5 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 .
6 He left his pictures to his nephew , Thomas Hankey of Bedford Square : these were sold at Christie 's on 7–8 June 1799 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The sale of Modern British art at Sotheby 's on 4 November included a surprising number of notable works and attracted a large audience .
11 No 5029 Renown approaches Exeter Central station with the 09.15 Waterloo to Exeter St David 's on 17 August 1989 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The most important oil painting by Goya to appear on the market for two decades will be offered at Sotheby 's on 9 December .
19 Continental ceramics including Meissen Porcelain from the Korthaus Collection at Christie 's on 21 September produced good results despite the high estimates .
20 Christie 's on 15 April will be offering the first part of one of the most famous private armouries ( or Gewehrkammer ) to remain in Germany .
21 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 .
22 Sotheby 's on 29 October featured a brace of Bouguereaus , of which the best was ‘ Le Coquillage ’ , of a mother placing a shell to the ear of her winsome blonde daughter .
23 The projected sale of the contents of Pitchford Hall , Shropshire by Christie 's on 28–30 September is a direct result of the owner , Mrs Caroline Colthurst 's family 's major losses at Lloyd 's .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 His exceptional collection of gemstones , engraved gems , drawings , prints , and natural-history specimens was auctioned by White 's on 23 June 1785 .
27 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 .
28 It was noted that the 125th Anniversary of the Opening of the Bishop 's Castle Railway is on 14 October 1990 .
29 The next meeting of the board 's directors is on 1 April , exactly one year before the change from statutory to voluntary is due to take place .
30 The opening meeting on the new surface at the Nottinghamshire track is on 1 November , two days after Lingfield stage their historic fixture .
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