Buyers Chase Bacon’s Lover to Koons’s Egg in London Sale – here is Katya Kazakina’s summary (for Bloomberg) of last night’s sale in London.  

Tonight Sotheby’s presented their Contemporary sale in London and the results were even stronger than the competitions.   Top lot tonight was Francis Bacon’s Portrait of George Dyer Talking at £42.2M ($70M – about twice what they expected).  Second place was … More…

Warhol’s Mao to Red Richter Lift $146 Million London Sale – Katya Kazakina’s summary of last night’s sale in London.  

Tonight saw the second of several sales featuring art from the Contemporary side of the coin and as usual, the results were impressive.  The sale featured 57 works, of which 47 found buyers (82.5%) and the total take was £87.97M ($144.6M). … More…