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The Anti-Eviction Taskforce protest outside yesterday’s Allsop auction at the Shelbourne. from left, Jim McKay, Patrick Grant (People’s Association Watchdog), Derek Monaghan and Mark Geoghegan.
THE BRISK bidding and jovial atmosphere at the Allsop Space auction were interrupted when a protester heckled Allsop auctioneer Gary Murphy.
Tom McNulty, from the group calling itself the anti-eviction taskforce asked Murphy if he could guarantee that people in the room “won’t be buying ill will with their neighbours and from the people who can no longer afford to keep the property”. Speaking outside the auction room, McNulty said people often get caught up in the frenzy of cheap property and forget there is “a human side to many of these sales and that there are families suffering. Some buyers will be purchasing into communities where there will be nothing but ill will and trouble”.
Earlier, inside the auction room, auctioneer Gary Murphy from the UK-based Allsop had replied “Don’t bid then,” before thanking McNulty for his “kind words”.
Hey, it’s just business.
Auction interrupted briefly by protester (Irish Times)
92% of lots sold by Allsop (Irish Times)
(Photocall Ireland)
Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II sold at Christie’s on Tuesday night for $4.3 million, breaking the previous record set by Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #96 ($3.98m).
Four point three million dollars.
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Tech entrepreneur John Vaccaro, who bought up a large amount of Ponzi-fraudster Bernie Madoff’s clothing at auction, is now reselling the cut-up pants and sweaters as custom iPad covers for several hundred bucks apiece. To lawyers, no doubt.
Madoff’s Immoral Fabric (NY Post)
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Last Wednesday at Christie’s (New York), the above photograph – Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #96” (1981) – sold for $3.89 million to New York dealer, Philippe Segalot.
“Untitled #153” (1985), also by Cindy Sherman, went for $2.7m 6 months ago. To the same dealer.
Cindy Sherman Print Sells For $3.9 Million At Auction, The Highest Ever For A Photograph (PopPhoto)
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84 lots went under the hammer at last week’s ‘distressed properties’ auction at the Shelbourne.
Only one failed to sell. This one.
A semi-d at Dun Na Rí, Tinryland. The reserve price was €77,500.
Mmf.
This rare Chinese vase that was found in an attic was recently sold at auction for €50,000,000.
Mystery surrounds the identities of the brother and sister who sold a rare Chinese vase they found in their parents’ loft for €50m.
The pair were clearing out their parents’ house in Pinner, Middlesex, after the elderly couple’s death, when they found the vase.They put it aside, on top of a bookcase, as they continued to deal with the rest of their parents’ property.
They took it to the local auctioneer Bainbridges, in nearby Ruislip, who were in turn excited by the find and valued it at between £800,000 and £1.2m.
However, no one expected the reaction from Chinese buyers, who pushed the bidding up over 30 frenzied minutes to a world record £43m.
By the end of the auction, the price was increasing in £1m chunks as the final few bidders – understood to be mainland Chinese businessmen – vied for the vase
Imagine how many gold toilet brush holders you could buy with that!
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In December 2010, the family of Johnny Cash auctioned a collection of the Man In Black’s personal items, including handwritten lyrics, poems, the blue jumpsuit he wore during his legendary performance at San Quentin prison ($3000 – $5000) and his vintage 1951 Martin guitar ( $20,000 – $30,000).
Also, the above to-do list.
Without doubt, the coolest to-do list in existence.
Johnny Cash’s Personal Items Go Up On The Auction Block