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.
