Read more Francis Bacon stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3490/francis-bacon.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/59591/francis-bacons-work-relied-on-gimmick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrancis Bacon’s paintings still have the ability to shock, but beneath that initial thrill lies a consistent, even amateur, formula that “had grown stagnant by 1965,” Jerry Saltz writes in New York in previewing a retrospective opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The calculated pictorial repetitiousness and lack...http://www.newser.com/story/59591/francis-bacons-work-relied-on-gimmick.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 13:37:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57775/strapped-art-market-preps-for-auctions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter a 7-year boom, art auction houses are struggling as collectors hit hard by the recession close their wallets. Sotheby’s predicts it will pull in $179 million to $256 million at spring sales, compared to $742 million a year ago. As the spring events approach, auctioneers are employing an array...http://www.newser.com/story/57775/strapped-art-market-preps-for-auctions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 01 May 2009 10:21:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/42585/major-works-fail-to-sell-at-christies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe art world bust continued last night at the Christie's contemporary auction in New York, where almost a third of the 75 works on the block went unsold. Not a single collector bid for the highlight of the sale, a self-portrait by Francis Bacon estimated to sell for around $40...http://www.newser.com/story/42585/major-works-fail-to-sell-at-christies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Nov 2008 9:16:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40355/painting-price-spells-gloom-for-economy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Lucian Freud painting expected to sell for more than $12 million at Christie’s today went for only $9.4 million, a sign that even super-rich buyers of contemporary art are cutting back in the financial crisis, the Daily Telegraph reports. The art world anxiously awaited the sale of Freud’s...http://www.newser.com/story/40355/painting-price-spells-gloom-for-economy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Oct 2008 19:14:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27535/bacon-breaks-record-as-art-market-sizzles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 1976 triptych painting by Francis Bacon became the most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold when it went for $86.2 million at auction last night, Reuters reports. Seventeen other artists also set records at the sale, boosting Sotheby's to the best night in its 300-year history and...http://www.newser.com/story/27535/bacon-breaks-record-as-art-market-sizzles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 May 2008 3:30:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/15037/contemporary-art-scores-for-auction-houses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagContemporary art has been very good to Sotheby’s, fueling a 46% boost in sales for the world’s second-largest auctioneer this year over last, Bloomberg says. A crop of new collectors from the US, Russia and Asia brought new records for artists like Francis Bacon and Jeff Koons, for a total...http://www.newser.com/story/15037/contemporary-art-scores-for-auction-houses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Dec 2007 11:39:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/3503/london-art-sales-soar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrancis Bacon took top honors and Damien Hirst became the highest-priced living artist—beating out Jasper Johns—at Sotheby's contemporary auctions in London last week. A 1971 Bacon self-portrait went for $43.2 million, and the Hirst pill cabinet called "Lullaby Spring" for $19.4 million. "Hirst is the Google...http://www.newser.com/story/3503/london-art-sales-soar.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 25 Jun 2007 11:45:52 CDT