Triptych by Francis Bacon could fetch 90 million dollars at auction

New York - The triptych by Irish-British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) could be sold for an estimated around 90 million dollars (1.7 billion crowns) at the November auction in New York. According to the DPA agency, this could result in a record sum offered for post-war art at Christie's auction house.
    Although the auction house did not disclose the estimate for the 1969 triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud, it hopes to sell the work on November 12 for a record amount, at least concerning Francis Bacon's paintings.
    In 2008, another Bacon triptych was sold for 86.3 million dollars, which is still the highest amount for a post-war artwork. According to British press reports, the buyer of the 1976 triptych was Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
    Last year, an absolute record was achieved at Sotheby's auction house in New York when the famous The Scream by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was purchased by an unknown buyer for 119.9 million dollars.
    The triptych depicting painter Lucian Freud, the grandson of psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud, is considered one of Bacon's greatest works. It has not been offered at any auction until now.
    Each of the three individual paintings in the triptych is two meters high and nearly one and a half meters wide.
    Francis Bacon, known for his expressive paintings filled with horror, violence, and absurdity, is regarded as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. Bacon died in 1992, and since then the prices of his works have been continually rising.