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Francis Bacon and John Edwards – a fruitful relationship?

Posted on: May 15, 2014 by Alexander Herman

On Tuesday, a tryptic by artist Francis Bacon of his partner and confidant John Edwards sold for $80.8 million (£47.9 million). While the auction was also important for sales of works by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Alexander Calder – and for reaffirming the economic strength of a resurgent modern and contemporary art market – the prices […]