Francis Bacon’s ‘Three Studies of Lucien Freud’ Sells for $142.4 million USD
An oil-on-canvas artwork by 20th-century painter Francis Bacon now holds the record for the single most expensive work ever sold at auction. As the name may suggest, Three Studies of Lucien Freud is tri-paneled abstract painting competed in 1969 that depicts Lucien Freud, a close friend and artistic rival of Bacon, in a set of poses confined within a wire structure. In the company of pieces from Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bacon’s visual investigation of his friend and colleague was sold by Christie’s for an unsurpassed £89.1 million (approximately $142.4 million USD).
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