Witnify http://witnify.com I was there. Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:37:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 Sotheby's Sotheby's Francis Outred on the Most Expensive Painting Ever Auctioned http://witnify.com/sothebys-francis-outred-on-the-most-expensive-painting-ever-auctioned/ http://witnify.com/sothebys-francis-outred-on-the-most-expensive-painting-ever-auctioned/#comments Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:30:23 +0000 http://qa1.witnify.com/?p=14118 Francis Bacon's three-paneled painting, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud," is currently the most expensive painting ever sold at auction and Francis Outred, the head of postwar and contemporary art at Sotheby's-Europe explains why it is such a big-ticket item. Continue reading

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Francis Bacon's three-paneled painting, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud," is currently the most expensive painting ever sold at auction and Francis Outred, the head of postwar and contemporary art at Sotheby's-Europe explains why it is such a big-ticket item. The 1969 painting of Bacon's friend, Lucian Freud, who was also the grandson of Sigmund Freud, sold for $142.4 million at Christie's on November 12, 2013 in New York City. Watch Outred explain why it was worth the price.

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