Expensive (Francis) Bacon at $50,000,000

Full Canvas · Feb 7, 2008

It's been a while since his Study of Innocent X stared out at us from the SF pages. Recently, Francis Bacon's Triptych 1974-77 of his (then) recently deceased lover, George Dyer, fetched a little better than $50,000,000 including all related fees.

Watch the auctioneer's hammer go down in the less than exciting bidding. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/new...t=true&bbcws=2

The photo of Bacon is circa 1961. The photo of Triptych 1974-77 is a recent wire photo.

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Get Smart · Feb 7, 2008

Bacon is one of my fave artists. his work is amazing seen IRL, with all the gritty texture he mixes into his paints

There is gonna be a big Bacon show in London starting in Sept iirc that we hope to catch around Xmas

$50mil wow. That guys is bringing home a lotta Bacon to bring home that Bacon

Go Surface · Feb 7, 2008

That's an incredible amount of money.

I need to get to wooork.

Willsw · Feb 7, 2008

This post caused me to look up the most expensive paintings, which I haven't done since the Klimt took it awhile ago. David Geffen has since been responsible for the list now being crowned by Pollock, then de Kooning.

For some reason, still, the only piece that seems at all worth, in the incredible way a painting can be worth, that money is Rubens and his Massacre. Maybe Klimt. I was about to say something about contemporary art appearing on there, but then realized Johns is still alive and up there, also courtesy of David Geffen.

What are they paying for?

jkennett · Feb 7, 2008

Originally Posted by GoSurface

That's an incredible amount of money.

I need to get to wooork.
Only after the artist has kicked the bucket does their art really skyrocket in value... You know that though.. Just wanted to point out the fact of you becoming rich through painting is gonna be a pain.

good luck though!

Go Surface · Feb 7, 2008

Originally Posted by jkennett

Only after the artist has kicked the bucket does their art really skyrocket in value... You know that though.. Just wanted to point out the fact of you becoming rich through painting is gonna be a pain.

good luck though!

That used to be the case, but it isn't anymore. Anyway, I'm not really concerned about that right now. I do commissions here and there (and they pay pretty well), but right now I'm just focusing on the series I'm working on. And transfer apps.

jkennett · Feb 7, 2008

Originally Posted by GoSurface

That used to be the case, but it isn't anymore. Anyway, I'm not really concerned about that right now. I do commissions here and there (and they pay pretty well), but right now I'm just focusing on the series I'm working on. And transfer apps.

yeah... true. forgot about damien hirst and his ilk. was just a bad joke in any case; i'm actually really into modern art. good luck with the transfer. are you currently at corcoran college in d.c.?

Go Surface · Feb 7, 2008

Originally Posted by jkennett

yeah... true. forgot about damien hirst and his ilk. was just a bad joke in any case; i'm actually really into modern art. good luck with the transfer. are you currently at corcoran college in d.c.?
Actually, I was at GWU. Psych and Prelaw. I know. Not to sound long-winded, but I think the whole time while I was there I was in this transitory phase; I just needed a kick ********** to realize what I was really meant to do. That kick ********** was having dinner with Evelyn Rosenberg (inventor of detonography). I had seen a special about her on Disovery Channel years ago, and last year, by some random stroke of luck, she showed up at a friends passover dinner. And everything just fell into place.

PS. I'll keep pursuing it until I kick the bucket.

LabelKing · Feb 7, 2008

Now my dream of having Pope Innocent X hanging over my bed is dashed to bits.

caelte · Feb 8, 2008

Originally Posted by GoSurface

Actually, I was at GWU. Psych and Prelaw. I know. Not to sound long-winded, but I think the whole time while I was there I was in this transitory phase; I just needed a kick ********** to realize what I was really meant to do. That kick ********** was having dinner with Evelyn Rosenberg (inventor of detonography). I had seen a special about her on Disovery Channel years ago, and last year, by some random stroke of luck, she showed up at a friends passover dinner. And everything just fell into place.

PS. I'll keep pursuing it until I kick the bucket.
Dentonography is amazing.

Go Surface · Feb 8, 2008

Originally Posted by caelte

Dentonography is amazing.

It really is. Are you familiar with her work? I love "Dream Snake."

jkennett · Feb 8, 2008

I hadn't heard of detonography, but it does look to be a very interesting method. Quite cool that Watkins Mill HS in Gaithersburg has those pillars of hers.

edmorel · Feb 8, 2008

Originally Posted by GoSurface

Actually, I was at GWU. Psych and Prelaw. I know. Not to sound long-winded, but I think the whole time while I was there I was in this transitory phase; I just needed a kick ********** to realize what I was really meant to do.

So you were in the most expensive college in America just as a "transitory phase", I'm sure your parents were happy to hear that

edmorel · Feb 8, 2008

Originally Posted by Get Smart

That guys is bringing home a lotta Bacon to bring home that Bacon

Why dude, why.

Go Surface · Feb 8, 2008

Originally Posted by edmorel

So you were in the most expensive college in America just as a "transitory phase", I'm sure your parents were happy to hear that

hahaha.

At least I'm not there anymore.

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