A painting by Dublin-born British artist Francis Bacon is tipped to fetch a record 70 million dollars when it goes under the hammer in New York in May, according to media reports quoting Sotheby's Tuesday.
"Triptych, 1976," described by the auction house as the most important Bacon in private hands and rich in symbolism drawing on ancient Greek mythology, is to go on sale on May 14.
Francis Bacon's 'Triptych' on display at at Christie's auction house in London. The British-artist's "Triptych, 1976," is tipped to fetch a record 70 million dollars when it goes under the hammer in New York in May.(Xinhua/AFP file Photo) The triptych was the centrepiece of Bacon's show at the Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris in 1977, considered the artist's most important display of new works of the 1970s.
A Sotheby's auctioneer looks for bids on the Francis Bacon "Self Portrait" in 2007 in New York. A painting by Dublin-born British artist Francis Bacon is tipped to fetch a record 70 million dollars when it goes under the hammer in New York in May, Sotheby's said Monday.((Xinhua/AFP file Photo) The painting's three panels show Bacon's lucid imagination with allegorical depictions drawing on the myth of Prometheus, who, according to legend, was bound to a rock where his liver was repeatedly devoured by an eagle.
A painting by Francis Bacon entitled "Study from Innocent X" is seen at Sotheby's in London April 18, 2007. The painting, estimated in excess of $30 million, will be auctioned at a contemporary art sale in New York on May 15. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) The work is said to be symbolic of the artist's inner demons.
The current record for a Bacon was set last year in New York, when his "Study from Innocent X" (1962) sold for 52.7 million -- at the time also setting a record for any work by a British or Irish artist sold at auction.
Source: Xinhua/Agencies
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