Tag: Francis Bacon

• Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 21:45 UTC

  British painter Bacon triptych becomes most expensive artwork sold at auction

  

  A painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction after it fetched 142 million dollars in New York. The triptych, Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969), is considered one of Bacon's greatest masterpieces.