Sotheby’s helped to set a record Wednesday for the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction after a painting by Francis Bacon went to an anonymous bidder for $86.3 million.
Triptych, 1976 was one of Bacon’s most important works and had been owned by the same private collector until last night. It created an overnight sensation in 1976 when it was first exhibited in
The new record came less than 24 hours after a work by Bacon’s long-time friend Lucien Freud was sold at Christie’s for $33.6 million, earning Freud the title of most expensive living artist.
Bacon was born in 1909 in
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