Rijks Widget

Okay, so a new addition to this page is my Rijksmuseum widget. On the right, you'll see a different painting from their *awesome* collection each day. You can click the arrow in the lower right hand corner to "flip" the painting over for more info on it. If you first click on the + in the middle, the painting gets much larger and you can still flip it and get even more information about the painting. You can download the desktop widget at www.rijksmuseum.nl. Or, you can just visit my blog every day and git un edjukashun!

Francis Bacon Back on Top

ArtNet's price database lists the two most expensive works of art sold at auction last month.  *cue drumroll*   Both of them are by Francis Bacon!  People can't get enough dark sexuality these days.  

Sotheby's of London sold Nude with a Figure in a Mirror for $38,758,011 USD on February 27th.  Surprisingly, it didn't go for as much or more than the #1 most expensive work of art sold during February by Christie's of London, one of Bacon's famous Triptych images, for which someone decided to shell-out $52,387,629 USD.  That's not chump change!  

Triptych was part of his series painted in the early-mid 1970's after the death of his partner.  Not a very happy subject-I always wonder where the people who purchase these pieces place them, if they are putting them in their homes.  This one isn't exactly something I'd want over my fireplace.