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Les Aléas du direct best-of spécial foire de Montpellier: Emission du samedi 18 octobre 2014 2/2
The Porsche 911 Sally Special sold at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey Auction on Saturday evening for a record $3.6 million (auction hammer price). In the charged atmosphere of the packed bidding hall, the one-of-one car attracted significant interest, with the final winning offer coming from a telephone bidder. The price was a record for a new Porsche sold at auction, according to the auction house.The sale reunited members of the original Cars team who created both the car in the Disney and Pixar film and the life-size Sally Carrera, based on a 2002 Porsche 911 Carrera. That team included actress Bonnie Hunt, the voice of Sally Carrera, Jay Ward, Creative Director of Franchise at Pixar Animation Studios, and Bob Pauley, who, as Production Designer for Cars, sketched Sally for the first time 20 years ago. They were joined by Kjell Gruner, President and CEO of Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), and key members of Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur’s Sonderwunsch team including Alexander Fabig and Boris Apenbrink.
Botticelli's "Man of Sorrows" was sold for $45,419,700 at a Sotheby's auction in New York. The rare portrait of Christ by the 15th century Italian old master was painted later in his life. IMAGES
Budapest, Aug 19 (EFE).- (Camera: Marcelo Nagy) In 1896, years before large cities such as Paris, Berlin or New York had an underground train, in Budapest, the then second capital of the Austro- Hungarian, a subway was already circulating that was once a technological prodigy in a city in full swing towards modernity.FOOTAGE OF THE SUBWAY AND DOWNTOWN OF BUDAPEST.
New York, Jun 24 (EFE) (CAMERA: Nora Quintanilla).- "This changed everything" is the name under which Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, will sell to the highest bidder the original code with which he laid the foundations of the internet 30 years ago, in NFT format, through the auction house Sotheby's.