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NEWS ABOUT: Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon stories: 7 news summaries
ART REVIEW

 Francis Bacon's Work 
 Relied on 'Gimmick' 


May 20, 09 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Francis Bacon’s paintings still have the ability to shock, but beneath that initial thrill lies a consistent, even amateur, formula that “had grown stagnant by 1965,” Jerry Saltz writes in New York in previewing a retrospective opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The calculated... More »

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Francis Bacon • painting • painter • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Jay-ZTV • fine art • grotesque

 Strapped 
 Art Market 
 Preps for 
 Auctions 

Expectations low as auction houses try variety of tactics

May 1, 09 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - After a 7-year boom, art auction houses are struggling as collectors hit hard by the recession close their wallets. Sotheby’s predicts it will pull in $179 million to $256 million at spring sales, compared to $742 million a year ago. As the spring events approach, auctioneers are employing an... More »

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art market • art • Andy Warhol • Sotheby's • Christie's • Damien Hirst • Francis Bacon • Mark Rothko • art auction • Jeff Koons • Pablo Picasso • financial crisis • Alberto Giacometti • Robert Gober • Tamara de Lempicka • Jean-Michel Basquiat • Tom Wesselman

 Major Works 
 Fail to Sell 
 at Christie's 

Dismal auction season continues as Bacon fails to find buyer

Nov 13, 08 9:16 AM CST
(Newser) - The art world bust continued last night at the Christie's contemporary auction in New York, where almost a third of the 75 works on the block went unsold. Not a single collector bid for the highlight of the sale, a self-portrait by Francis Bacon estimated to sell for around $40... More »

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art market • contemporary art • art • Christie's • Francis Bacon • Lehman Brothers • art auction • Richard Fuld

Painting Price Spells Gloom
for Economy

Portrait of Bacon auctions for only
$9.4M at Christie's

Oct 19, 08 7:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Lucian Freud painting expected to sell for more than $12 million at Christie’s today went for only $9.4 million, a sign that even super-rich buyers of contemporary art are cutting back in the financial crisis, the Daily Telegraph reports. The art world anxiously awaited the sale of... More »

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art • Sotheby's • Christie's • Francis Bacon • art auction • Lucian Freud • financial crisis

Bacon Breaks Record
as Art Market Sizzles

Artist's 1976 masterpiece sells for $86M at red-hot Sotheby's sale

May 15, 08 3:30 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Contemporary Art Scores for Auction Houses

Sales swelled 36% in 2007; some fear houses too invested in the new

Dec 27, 07 11:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Contemporary art has been very good to Sotheby’s, fueling a 46% boost in sales for the world’s second-largest auctioneer this year over last, Bloomberg says. A crop of new collectors from the US, Russia and Asia brought new records for artists like Francis Bacon and Jeff Koons, for... More »

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contemporary art • London • art • subprime mortgages • Sotheby's • Christie's • Francis Bacon • Vincent Van Gogh • art auction • Jeff Koons • impressionist art

London Art Sales Soar

Bacon tops Sotheby's contemporary auctions; London shows new art-market clout

Jun 25, 07 11:45 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

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