Accusing Christie’s of bad faith, a South Korean gallery claims in a pair of lawsuits that the storied auction house sold a Francis Bacon painting at a “bargain-basement price.” MANHATTAN (CN) – ...

A triptych by Francis ... triptychs — a painting in three parts —created by Bacon between 1962 and 1991. It previously belonged to a Norwegian art collector and had an estimated value of $60 million ...

An aspiring artist hung her own painting at a museum show and later sold the work at auction. Not all have been so lucky.

Francis Bacon ... will make its auction debut this spring with Sotheby’s. Estimated to sell for between $30 million and $50 ...

The cornucopia is up for auction, and will soon dip out of view ... to fetch is dwarfed by the $30 to $50 million Sotheby’s ...

This roundup of the most expensive lots at auction around the world in March reflects the strength of the offerings during ...

A Francis Bacon painting of Lucian Freud has sold for £43.4 million on its auction debut, making it the most valuable single panel piece by the artist, according to Sotheby’s. Titled Study For ...

The painting was destroyed two years later ... even “eclipsing Francis Bacon,” the auction house said. Portraiture was a later practice for the artist, beginning with a 1948 work he did ...

A Francis Bacon ... Titled Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud, it was painted by British artist Bacon in 1964 and based on a photograph of his fellow art contemporary Freud, taken in the same ...