Contemporary Art Record Shattered Again
"A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby's, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to doomsayers who had predicted that the art market would falter seriously this season because of broad economic anxieties." The New York Times 05/15/08

Posted May 15, 2008 05:38 AM