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Francis Bacon triptych fetches 24.3 mn pounds at London sale
A triptych by British painter Francis Bacon of one of his muses sold for 24.3 million pounds (27.9 million euros) at an auction in London on Oct. 14.
Entitled "Three studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes," it is composed of three small canvases roughly 35 cm by 30 cm.
It served as studies for a portrait of Henrietta Moraes.
Sotheby’s to sell $600 mln of art from Macklowe divorce
Sotheby's has won the rights to sell the highly sought-after Macklowe art collection, valued at more than $600 million, the auction house announced Sept. 9.
The trove, which includes works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, was the subject of a bitter legal dispute following the high-profile divorce of New York real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife Linda.
Auctioneers eye $1 billion haul in London's summer art sales
With an Atlantic tailwind from May auctions in New York, in which the two biggest auction houses sold art pieces totaling more than $2 billion, many eyes are focused on major sales which began this week in London, sales which may see prices soar again to dizzying heights, Reuters has reported.
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