At the Tavern on the Green auction.All the major lots were briskly gaveled away during the three-day auction of flotsam from the foundering of the bankrupt Tavern on the Green.

Potential bidders previewed a three-day auction of 1,000 lots of items at Tavern on the Green that have been valued at $100 to $1.2 million.

Next month, the bankrupt restaurant Tavern on the Green’s famous treasures will be up for sale to the highest bidder.

Sotheby’s is selling the renowned floral designer Robert Isabell’s collection of mid-20th-century furniture and sculpture, which includes some sublime oddities.

About 700 people at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in Midtown Manhattan and more than 1,000 others online vied for items ranging from a Mets jacket to Ruth Madoff’s jewelry.

Clothes with price tags still attached, monogrammed golf clubs, jewelry galore: these were a few of the Madoffs’ favorite things, now up for auction.

Clothes with price tags still attached, monogrammed golf clubs, jewelry galore: these were a few of the Madoffs’ favorite things, now up for auction.

The evening sale of contemporary art at Phillips de Pury brought a vibrant week of auctions to an anemic close on Thursday night.

One year after the art market was in the doldrums with the world’s financial markets, buyers with deep pockets were not shy about stepping up for tried-and-true artists.

The price rose at break-neck speed at Sotheby’s auction as five collectors vied for the classic image of “200 One Dollar Bills.”