How art world is putting changed times in picture

Surveying the global market, Des O’Sullivan says when the going gets tough, the tough get going

Francis Bacon's Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus at Sotheby's on June 29.

Francis Bacon's Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus at Sotheby's on June 29.

Change is gathering pace in the global art market. The restrictions wrought by pandemic has forced the market to adapt in all sorts of inventive ways. Many are embracing change in ways best exemplified by the old truism that when the going gets tough the tough get going.