Antiques: Bringing home the $84.6m Bacon

Des O'Sullivan reports on an unprecedented series of three auctions conducted remotely

Francis Bacon's 'Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus'.

Francis Bacon's Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus sold for $84.6 million at Sotheby’s live-streamed global art sale this week. It is a mark of how the online world of big art sales has quickly adjusted to the new normal.

An unprecedented series of three auctions conducted remotely by auctioneer Oliver Barker in London with bids on phone banks in New York, Hong Kong and London and online brought in $363.2 million.