CHRISTIE’S has released videos about specific artworks in the Contemporary art sales in London on February 14. Here are videos on Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois and Mark Rothko, and also featuring works by Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Jeff Wall, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Nicolas de Staël:
UPDATE: The Bacon sold for £21.3 million and was the top lot, the piece by Louise Bourgeois did not sell and the Rothko was withdrawn. Gerhard Richter”s Abstraktes Bild made £9,897,250 and Agrigente by Nicolas de Staël made £5.3 million. A Piero Manzoni sold for £2.7 million and Lucio Fontana made two million. Freud’s Boat Connemara made £657,250. A work by Yves Klein sold for £1.7 million. The work by Jeff Wall sold for £301,250 on February 15. (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for January 20 and January 30, 2012.)