Masterpieces by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Peter Doig will feature at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art evening auctions in New York on May 11 and 13. Bacon’s Portrait of Henrietta Moraes is one of the most seductive portraits of a woman he ever made. It will be presented alongside Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Resting, a masterful reworking of the traditional theme of the nude. This is one of Freud’s most famous and iconic paintings.
An icon of contemporary painting, Peter Doig’s Swamped conjures an extraordinary sense of atmosphere around a single solitary canoe. Rendered using a vast array of painterly techniques and processes, Swamped encapsulates the inimitable approach has come to define Doig’s contribution to the history of painting.
Francis Bacon – Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (c$35 million). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2015 UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $47,765,000
Peter Doig (born 1959) – Swamped ($20-30 million). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2015. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $25,592,000 A WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
Lucian Freud – Benefits Supervisor Resting ($30-50 million). Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2015. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $56,165,000, A WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST