the business of art

At $44.4 million, a Georgia O'Keeffe painting set the record for the highest amount paid for a female artist. The all time art auction record is $142.4m for a Francis Bacon piece.

"The modern artist must [go deep] to make any difference at all."
- Francis Bacon

Image source here.

Portrait of Peter Beard

"Painting is a game for man to distract himself ... Beauty moves me. Nothing else."
- Francis Bacon

Of Beauty

The Rasin Building, also known as the Dancing House or the Fred and Ginger Building, designed by Frank Gehry in Prague, Czech Republic.

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
- Sir Francis Bacon [1561-1626]

unaffordable art

regime

Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud, 1952

Francis Bacon [1909-1992] "would get up in the morning at 7am, paint until noon. Have a smart lunch in Saint James's, go to his gallery Marlborough, get some money from the drawer, go drinking in the afternoon until the early evening and then be taken home in a taxi by somebody then wake up at 7am then paint clear headed until noon again."

An earlier reference to Francis Bacon here.

An earlier reference to routine here.

Francis Bacon [1909-1992]

Recently, his Triptych, 1976 sold for a record setting £44m to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich [born 1966].

A look at his studio here. A Guardian Francis Bacon Tate Podcast.