Abramovich Brings Home the $86.3m Bacon
The Art Newspaper revealed that the London-based Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is the mystery buyer of Francis Bacon’s Triptych, 1976, which sold at Sotheby’s New York this week for $86.3m as well as Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, at Christie’s for $33.6m. History making indeed: the Bacon made the highest auction price ever for a post-war work of art, while Lucian Freud became the most expensive living artist snatching the title from Jeff Koons.
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geeez!!! that’s interesting!!!
“Lucian Freud became the most expensive living artist snatching the title from Jeff Koons.”
WTF? At least some sort of justice has been served (despite the obscene amounts of money). Koons is such a tool. But Freud is brilliant, and ‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’ is breathtaking.
I bet she stamps a mean dole form, too.
Where did Roman get his money?