Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Self Portrait realized $25,282,500 at the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 11 May 2011 in New York. Painted in 1974, the triptych shows the artist with eyes shut — in sleep, pain or contemplation — and varied in degrees from twisted expression to mutilation, offering the piece a powerful sense of motion, and fragility.
12 May 2011Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
11 May 2011 New York, Rockefeller Plaza.
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