{"id":5743,"date":"2009-03-01T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:45","slug":"they-came-they-bought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/01\/they-came-they-bought-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/holdeman-cover5484-large.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/holdeman-cover5484-large-226x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Joshua Holdeman &#039;93 joined Christie\u00c3\u0095s New York as international director and head of the firm\u00c3\u0095s New York photographs department and of Christie\u00c3\u0095s New York 20th-century decorative arts department. He serves in both a managerial and international business-getting role, with focus on pursuing high-value property and single-owner collections.\n\nShown here working the phones with clients at the two-day New York  auction of &quot;Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection,&quot; at 20 Rockefeller Plaza.\nThe collection features an extensive range of work of Helmut Newton and various other acclaimed photographers whose images portray high fashion models and glamourous celebrities (many of Marilyn Monroe), along with other assorted images.\nAlso shown at a auction for Tiffany&#039;s antiquities.\n\nAuctioneer at Tiffany event and for the first Constantiner sale is Philippe Garner, international head of the international photography department, and Andrea Fiuczynski, in the second sale. Also shown, collector Leon Constantiner (black glasses, bald head) and art handler William Gregory.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Holdeman \u201993, international director of 20th-century art for Christie\u2019s auction house, is all ears (and phones) as he talks to clients during bidding. Holdeman and his team oversaw the sale <em>Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection,<\/em> on Dec. 16\u201317, 2008, which achieved a record total \u2014 more than $7 million \u2014 for a single-owner Christie\u2019s sale dedicated to photographs. See <a href=\"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/2009\/03\/01\/they-came-they-bought\/\">the photo essay<\/a> by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Holdeman &#8217;93 has his clients in focus during a landmark Christie&#8217;s sale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,130],"tags":[10856,1891,11302,11047],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-collaboration","tag-bates-magazine","tag-business","tag-business-and-law","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88906,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/88906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}