Pop and Francis Bacon held the auctions, forced to reinvent themselves by the pandemic

Online sales and the appearance of new clients prevented the announced disaster in the art market

Bacon. ‘Triptych inspired by Aeschylus’s Orestiada,’ $ 85 million. Basquiat. ‘Untitled (Head),’ $ 15.2 million. Lichtenstein. ‘Nude with Joyous Painting,’ $ 46 million. Lempicka. ‘Portrait of Marjorie Ferry,’ $ 21.1 million in February.

GERARDO ELORRIAGA

Monday, 4 January 2021, 02:28

Nobody in the art world trusted the goodness of 2020. The year did not start with good omens because its predecessor ended with downward trends. The sale of contemporary pieces and antiques declined 5% from the record of more than 67,000 million dollars achieved in 2018, according to the ArtBasel report. But the development

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