A triptych by Francis Bacon of his longtime companion is poised to sell for about $80 million at Christies as the spring art auction season revs up with sales of postwar and contemporary works...A provocative image by Andy Warhol of the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, race riots and a seminal painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat of a regal warrior figure are among other big-ticket items coming up for sale Tuesday evening...Bacons Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards was executed in 1984 and comes on the market a year after Christies sold his 1969 Three Studies of Lucian Freud for $142.4 million, setting a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Read more here: ledger-enquirer/2014/05/13/3101317/francis-bacon-work-could-bring.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 18:08:39 +0000
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