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...Highlights of last week’s sales included Francis Bacon’s 1977 Study for Portrait, an oil painting depicting his lover George Dyer that hammered at $44m, well above its estimate....
...Photograph: Abigail Zoe Martin...
...Hopelessly overcrowded, the awkward airlessness of the Sheep Field Barn gallery is appropriate for the Abigail’s Party of sculpture inside....
...After the blockbusting, $691m sale of contemporary art at Christie’s in New York in November, with its record high prices – $142.4m for a Bacon, $58.4m for a Koons – art adviser Abigail Asher declared: “...
...Kevin Bacon as the well-to-do paterfamilias of a loving family sparks a war of bloody retribution when he inadvertently kills the hoodlum who murdered his son....
...Hirst has always bought but has recently begun to buy big: Warhol, Bacon. I say I imagine he would covet a Bacon Pope painting. “Too expensive. It’s out of my league. But you never know.”...
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