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  • May 2008
    • Bacon Breaks Record as Art Market Sizzles

      Bacon Breaks Record as Art Market Sizzles

      (Newser) - A 1976 triptych painting by Francis Bacon became the most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold when it went for $86.2 million at auction last night, Reuters reports. Seventeen other artists also set records at the sale, boosting Sotheby's to the best night in its 300-year history and quashing predictions that the economic slowdown would douse the red-hot market for postwar art. More »

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      art   painting   art market   Sotheby's   art auction   Robert Rauschenberg   Francis Bacon

  • December 2007
  • June 2007
    • London Art Sales Soar

      London Art Sales Soar

      (Newser) - Francis Bacon took top honors and Damien Hirst became the highest-priced living artist—beating out Jasper Johns—at Sotheby's contemporary auctions in London last week. A 1971 Bacon self-portrait went for $43.2 million, and the Hirst pill cabinet called "Lullaby Spring" for $19.4 million. "Hirst is the Google of the art world,''  a New York dealer told Bloomberg. More »

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      London   art   auction   art market   Sotheby's   Damien Hirst   Francis Bacon

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