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The auctioneer started the bidding at $100.
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Despite auctioneers selling about 1,600 works of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art within the last week, the only serious moment of excitement came from a $6.2 million banana.
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Julia Halperin, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
The ball had been put up for auction by auctioneers Goldin, with bids starting at $500,000 and collectors able to purchase it privately outright for $4.5 million.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
The Chelsea’s neon beacon has been divided into pieces, as auctioneer Arlan Ettinger, owner of the auction house Guernsey’s, tells the New York Times’ James Barron.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
Cambridge professor Frank Kelly and I have developed a combinatorial auction procedure called PAUSE (Progressive Adaptive User Selection Environment), where the auctioneer never faces the winner determination problem.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Julia Halperin, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
The ball had been put up for auction by auctioneers Goldin, with bids starting at $500,000 and collectors able to purchase it privately outright for $4.5 million.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
The Chelsea’s neon beacon has been divided into pieces, as auctioneer Arlan Ettinger, owner of the auction house Guernsey’s, tells the New York Times’ James Barron.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
Cambridge professor Frank Kelly and I have developed a combinatorial auction procedure called PAUSE (Progressive Adaptive User Selection Environment), where the auctioneer never faces the winner determination problem.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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