That might mean, say, esteemed cancer outfits such as London's Royal Marsden and Manchester's Christie hospitals tendering to take over cancer service in cities with poorer outcomes.
Whereas Tuesday's Christie's sale included wall-friendly works such as those color blobs by Rothko, Pollock says Wednesday's haul features more difficult works, such as a highly anticipated triptych from Francis Bacon.
Last December's Christie's auction in Los Angeles featured one lot that seemed irresistible: a poster for a film of a concert by Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath, two out-of-work heavy-metal rock bands that still stubbornly sell old records to adoring fans.
Sotheby's and Christie's each offered a Bridget Riley of undulating, vibratory lines from the 1970s.
Secondly, both Sotheby's and Christie's raised commission rates earlier this year by about 12%.
To take further advantage of his opportunity, Mr Arnault has been pillaging Sotheby's and Christie's ruthlessly.
But international auction firms like Sotheby's and Christie's until now have been restricted from holding sales within China.
Both dealers believe their present good fortune is at least partly the result of Sotheby's and Christie's distress.
Don't wait for a Sotheby's or Christie's auction they won't touch Nazi artifacts.
Both Sotheby's and Christie's are adding lots of extra seats to accommodate the new crowds (see " Revenge of the Nerds").
Sotheby's and Christie's have so far avoided auctioning off newer Oscars, but both houses are doing a brisk business in older statuettes.
Next month, both Sotheby's and Christie's will face a far tougher test when they hold three days of contemporary-art sales in London.
By contrast, he admits to buying 40% of the Hirst paintings that have come up for sale at Sotheby's and Christie's in the past year.
Their triumphant season was capped by November sales that saw both Sotheby's and Christie's total up their best month ever in terms of November sales.
Over the past two years Sotheby's and Christie's have become increasingly willing to offer sellers guaranteed prices for their works of art even if they do not sell.
Before an auction, both Sotheby's and Christie's ask for bank references from bidders or talk to major dealers to find out if the bidder has a good track record.
Auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's have been forced to adjust to these millionaires, who show up wearing blue jeans at auctions and in showrooms accustomed to older, more formally dressed clients.
The Hong Kong auction, which will feature ink paintings, calligraphy and classical Chinese furniture, marks the first time a Chinese auction house will compete with Sotheby's and Christie's on their home turf.
Last week's contemporary art auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's had the feel of growth stock mania in the early seventies when Xerox, Polaroid, even Eastman Kodak and American Express sold in the stratosphere at 40 to 60 times earnings.
He has burnished his reputation lately by breaking up an international vitamin cartel, being called in by a federal judge to handle a class action against Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, and representing Napster in its fight against the record companies over copyright infringement.
He has bought out Sotheby's New York jewellery experts en bloc, taken half its French furniture team and is seeking to seduce to Phillips the impressionist, modern picture and contemporary art expertise of Sotheby's and Christie's in London, with all the multi-million-dollar business and contacts they can bring.
All of this is to say that there are many reasons why voters and reporters will talk about Christie's weight, and why Christie's weight could become a major issue if he runs for president in 2016.
Lamentably, the two governors involved in this drama, New Jersey's Chris Christie and New York's Andrew Cuomo, have done nothing to stop the Port Authority's shameless gambit to squeeze more money out of a charity to which 900, 000 mostly small donors have contributed.
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Mr. Cutugno said the buyer became aware of the estate when it was showcased in Europe by Christie's International Real Estate (Houlihan Lawrence is an affiliate of Christie's).
At least that's the theory behind Christie 's February 23 auction, called The Origins of Cyberspace.
Marianne Elliott's direction and Bunny Christie's graph-paper design, the great lighting, projections and soundscape are all beyond praise.
The Guardian's Michael Billington says the actor is "excellent" in the Donmar Warehouse's "outstanding" revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie.
He represents the GOP's new generation of reformers that includes such Governors as Louisiana's Bobby Jindal and New Jersey's Chris Christie.
Titian scholars agree that this is the master's work, but Christie's is nervous of its unfinished state, its sitters and its date.
It was while playing the title role in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie on Broadway in 1993 that Richardson met her future husband Neeson.
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