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Francis Bacon Anthology
The contemporary art market has hit such hard times that even eternal bankables like Francis Bacon are being affected; even a relatively cheap painting of his failed to sell at Sotheby's in December. Expect interest in the twisted Irish genius to ...
$6 Billion Francis Bacon Exhibit Opens in London
Most of megabucks Irish artist Francis Bacon's major works - an estimated $6 billion worth in total - just went on exhibit at the Tate Britain in London. As my colleague Deidre Woollard reported in May, Luxist mascot Roman Abramovich slapped down a ...
Francis Bacon Connection Bounced from Vanity Fair's New Establishment
Last year, Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" list was hefty with art market players. This year, the magazine noted that the Wall Street folks and "big media" got their asses handed to them ... but a quick look shows that the arts got slammed, as ...
$70 Million Francis Bacon Stars in Sotheby's Sale
A Francis Bacon triptych painted in 1976 is expected to fetch about $70 million in the star sale of Sotheby's Contemporary Art auction in New York on May 14. If the work, billed as the most important privately-held Bacon extant, does max out despite ...
Abramovich Bankrolls Bacon Show at Girlfriend's Gallery
Profligate Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is bankrolling a major Francis Bacon exhibition at his gorgeous 27-year-old girlfriend Dasha Zhukova's new Moscow art gallery in 2010. The show at the luxe gallery, called the Garage Center for ...
New Bacon Book to Accompany Met Exhibit
If you can't make it to "Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this month you can still enjoy the great painter's works courtesy of art book imprint Skira Rizzoli. Francis Bacon, a comprehensive ...
Bacon's Back, Billionaires to Follow?
The Frieze Art Fair previews in less than a week, and London's art market players are looking to make a splash. While it's unlikely that the prestigious and well-attended event will single-handedly undo 12 months of carnage, hopes are high that it ...
Joe Francis Owes Nearly $34 Million, May File For Bankruptcy
Perennially smiling entrepreneur Joe Francis might not have so much to smile about now. The Girls Gone Wild Founder may owe nearly $34 million in taxes. Francis has been served with a tax lien that says that he failed to pay $17.7 million in 2001, ...
Bacon Triptych Could Be A Record Breaker
Although he already holds the record for British or Irish work ever auctioned, Francis Bacon's Triptych is expected to break records when it reaches Christie's auction block on February 6th. Most likely surpassing the 25 million pounds mark the ...
London Contemporary Art Auction Breaks Records
Expected to bring in roughly 72 million pounds, the Contemporary Art Auction in London on Wednesday broke records with a whopping total of 95 million pounds ($188 million)! With such pieces as Francis Bacon's "Study Of Nude With Figure In A Mirror" ...
Christie's to Auction Rare Lucian Freud Portrait
Christie's has announced it will offer one of the two Lucian Freud portraits of Francis Bacon in its Post-War and Contemporary Art auction in London this October. Pilar Ordovas, Christie's Head of Post-War and Contemporary art, calls it an "intimate ...
Paris Follows London with Art Fair
The big money's in Paris this season. Last night, a $24 million painting by Pablo Picasso of his mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, was put on reserve at the VIP preview of the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain. The FIAC is France's largest art ...
Chocomize Custom Chocolate Bars
Chocolate-lovers, brace yourselves: Chocomize lets you create custom chocolate treats. You pick the chocolate (dark, milk, or white, all premium Belgian), then select from more than 80 ingredients (nuts, fruit, herbs and spices, candies such as ...
A Primer on the Price of Bacon
Francis Bacon, that is. In this week's New York magazine, Marion Maneker, art world expert and author of the brilliant men's style book Dressing in the Dark, reveals how the Irishman who "painted meat and blurry popes" came to command $70 million ...
Rare Never Exhibited Bacon on Offer at Christie's
A rare Francis Bacon triptych that has never before been seen in public and has never been offered at auction is expected to fetch over $20 million during Christie's Contemporary Art Sales in London at the end of the month. Painted in Paris in 1975, ...
