Bacon’s Triptych breaks auction record

A FRANCIS BACON masterpiece broke the Dublin artist’s record at auction when it sold for $86.3 million (€54m) in New York, Sotheby’s said yesterday.

The sale of Triptych, 1976, for $86.3m eclipsed the previous record set in 1962, by the $52.7m paid for Study for Innocent X.

The three-panelled picture depicts a headless human form surrounded by three vultures and flanked by two portraits of disfigured human faces.