A new record for Bacon?
Seven years after the $29.7m record for a piece in the series set by the 1954 work Untitled (Pope), Sotheby's will put Study for a Head (1952) up for sale in New York in May, with an estimated value of between $20m and $30m.
The piece will be on sale as part of the Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis collection, featuring works by Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston and Adolph Gottlieb.
The record for a Francis Bacon work was set in 2013 by the 1969 piece Three Studies of Lucian Freud (in 3 parts), which sold for $142.4m. Read further via Artnews.
Francis Bacon, Study For A Head , 1952 — © Sotheby's
Art & Tech | Rhizome reveals its 7/7 programme
On April 27, Rhizome - dedicated to creating dialogue between art and new technology - will be holding a day of conferences titled "Seven on Seven" at New York's New Museum. The event will feature the following speakers:
Artist Rachel Rose & Kirstin Petersen, Founder, Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab, Cornell
Artist Matthew Angelo Harrison & Trevor McFedries, Cofounder, Brud
Artist Sarah Meyohas & Tarun Chitra, Founder, Gauntlet
Artist Hayal Pozanti & Laura Welcher, Linguist, Long Now Foundation
Artist American Artist & Rashida Richardson, Policy Research, AI Now
Artist Artie Vierkant & James La Marre, Developer & Activist
Artist Qiu Zhijie & He Xiaodong, Deputy Managing Director, JD AI
