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A three-panel masterpiece by Francis Bacon broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday, selling for more than $86 million after three bidders vied for it, a spokeswoman for the auction house said.
A Francis Bacon painting the artist donated to an art college in lieu of rent decades ago has sold for $16.4 million at an auction where solid but unspectacular results suggest global financial turmoil may be unsettling the art market.
An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than $71 million, more than quadrupling the previous top auction price for the pop artist's work, an auction house said.
Over and Over: Art That Never StopsVENICE — The Palazzo Michiel dal Brusa, a grand 14th-century pile here near the Rialto Bridge, is not exactly a place of desolation. It is filled with frescoes and lapped by the waters of the Grand Canal, and in the afternoon its cavernous first floor is suffused with...
'Artery' Exhibit Prompts an Art Attack in Arkansas TownExhibit A is a painting of Alice in Wonderland, by Beth Post of Fayetteville, Ark. Titled "The Temptation of Alice," it is a rendering of the iconic children's book character alongside the...
If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon's Would ShriekFrancis Bacon is an artist for our time. You may love or hate his work, which is still vigorously polarizing after all these years. But more than that of any other artist who emerged at the end of World War II, his work tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the...
Ao On Site: Banks Violette's "Not Yet Titled" at Team Gallery New York, through June 20th, 2009 From May 7th until June 20th, Team Gallery presents new work by artist Banks Violette. Last night, a crowd -among which fellow artists Dash Snow and Matthew Barney- gathered at Team Gallery and Grand Street to take a first look at the work.
Recession forcing museums to do more with lessNEW YORK - The recession is hitting museums hard from coast to coast, forcing directors to boost admission fees, cut budgets and staff, and put ambitious projects on hold. But in a twist on the bleak economic news, museums are actually reporting an increase in attendance.
Ao On Site: Lisa Yuskavage Paintings On View At David Zwirner February 19th To March 28th, 2009 Lisa Yuskavage's second solo show with David Zwirner Gallery opened on February 19th in Chelsea, the first of three Zwirner openings over the next two weeks.
Designers, artists, pretenders to the craft take heed! Herein are a brace of links to activities and trials most pleasurable to the visually inclined.
Freud portrait of Bacon sells for $13mAn unfinished portrait of Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud, one of only two he ever painted of his friend and the only one whose whereabouts is known, has sold for 5.4 million pounds ($13.5 million), British auction house Christie's said.
European art auction sets 'modern art record'Contemporary art works, including masterpieces by Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol, have gone under the hammer for more than £95m, Sotheby's has said.
Papers of 'Britain's Leonardo' now available onlineThe papers of one of Britain's greatest scientists, which were lost for centuries and saved for the nation in a £1 million sale last year, become available to read online today.
Painting Bacon gave in lieu of rent is set to make £9m at auction It is common practise in some circles to accept the work of an aspiring artist in lieu of rent, mostly in the hope that the artwork will reap dividends.
Sophia Loren's slice of BaconActress Sophia Loren is about to make as big an impact on the art market as she did on the silver screen: next week she will sell Francis Bacon's 1956 painting Study for Portrait II, from his series of pictures influenced by Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X.
In the darkest hour there may be light: works from Damien Hirst's murderme collection, Serpentine Gallery, London W2, to 28 JanThe Serpentine Gallery has surrendered itself to Damien Hirst and his collection of art. There are bones on the walls, lumps of flesh on the floor and limbless animals out in the garden. Hirst likes what he likes - and it is like what he makes.
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