Meister, what to hide, I'd be happy to look. Bacon alive first saw in 2004 at the Salon des Beaux Arts Gallery Tseretelli Prechistenke. They brought Marlborough Fine Art, the largest dealer of Bacon serious inventory. Then a year later, she brought home Bacon and Fernando Botero. In 2004, the whisper called Bacon's price - $ 4 million. Now I read your report on the first salon and laugh:
http://www.directorinfo.ru/Article.a...07&iid=610
Quote of 2004:
The shocking manner, plots, and higher emotional tension in the works brought the artist in his lifetime and millions of popularity, which could not prevent even a bad reputation Bacon. His paintings are not like them all, but some can not but arouse disgust the viewer with a healthy psyche. In the case of Bacon's neutrality and restraint of the plot - it is the dignity of work. These are the pictures brought Gallery Marlborough. Man at Washbasin ( «Man of the sink") and Stilllife Statue with broken Statue ( «Still Life with a broken statue") immediately riveting account. They not only puzzling ( "mystery" - the norm for the artist), but also an unusually decorative. Are depicted with a difference of 6 years, but the size of the canvas is the same - 198 x 147,5. Such "sverhrazmer" in terms of collector - drawback: the picture is too large and overshadows everything else. However, surrounded Bacon, perhaps, could only other picture of Bacon. More than strange life of Francis Bacon is dedicated to the film "Love - is the Devil" (2002) directed by John Maybury, which certainly spurred interest in the "mystery" of the artist and raise the costs of its work. At least, the price of each of the paintings brought Marlborough, chosen to bracket a $ 4 million, which is twice more expensive than the canvas by Salvador Dali Ensorcellement - Les sept art ( «Sorcery - The Seven Arts), exhibited a gallery Darga & Lansberg.
I remember that within a year or two Marlboros again brought home Bacon, large-scale canvases and for them to whisper, too, called the price - $ 6 million now canvases of this class are not less than 30 million, but rather more. That's how life is changing. However, Abramovich in 2004-2005 who remembers, decides to commit other tasks, then it was not up to art ...