Style and Art » francis_bacon http://www.styleandart.com Your Daily Dose of Beauty Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:32:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Art Auctions Expected to Fetch up to 1 billion dollars http://www.styleandart.com/art-auctions-expected-to-fetch-up-to-1-billion-dollars/ http://www.styleandart.com/art-auctions-expected-to-fetch-up-to-1-billion-dollars/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:55:14 +0000 Style and Art http://www.styleandart.com/art-auctions-expected-to-fetch-up-to-1-billion-dollars/ Francis Bacon’s study of Pope Innocent XAuctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York next month are expected to fetch near to a billion dollars. Among the works up for auction are Francis Bacon’s study of Pope Innocent X (pictured left) and a Mark Rothko painting, these works alone are expected to get up to 70 million dollars amongst them.

Other paintings in the auction include a Cèzanne watercolor which is estimated to make up to $18 million, while a reclining nude by Henri Matisse could fetch as much as $20m (£10m) at the Sotheby’s sale.

All these works are now in display at Sotheby’s in London

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