LONDON - Christie’s will present a series of exhibitions and auctions dedicated to Post-War and Contemporary art and 20th century Italian art from 15 to 21 October 2008, during a week when the international art world will gather in London for a showcase of contemporary art exhibitions and events including The Frieze Art Fair. The […]
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Christie?s Auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art
LONDON - Christie’s announce that they will offer one of only two oil portraits of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) ever painted by Lucian Freud (b. 1922) at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 19 October 2008 in London. The last known remaining oil portrait (the other was stolen from an exhibition in Berlin in […]
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Francis Bacon Portrait to be Offered at Christie?s
LONDON - Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale took place on the 30 June 2008 and realised $171,879,508 - the highest total for the category at Christie’s in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Three Studies for a Self Portrait by Francis Bacon (1909-1992), a rare self-portrait triptych that the artist painted […]
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Christie?s Sells Francis Bacon?s Triptych for $34.5 M. and Balloon Flower by Jeff Koons for $25.8 M.
LONDON - Sotheby’s announced that it will offer Study for Head of George Dyer, 1967 by Francis Bacon (1909-92) in its Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008. Francis Bacon is widely regarded as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century and this work is not only an exceptionally rare, […]
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Sotheby?s London to Offer Exceptionally Rare Study for Head of George Dyer by Francis Bacon
