2022Record Breakers Art

One of René Magritte?s famed Empire of Light canvases sold for approximately US$79 8 million in March 2022 The sales price was almost three times the high price at auction for a work by the Belgian Surrealist

In June 2022,a Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud,known officially as Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud,was sold by Sotheby?s London for a record-breaking US$52 8 million,the highest price a single-panel Bacon painting has earned to date

The US$922 million Macklowe sale in May 2022,a collection of 65 artworks belonging to real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife,Linda Macklowe,displaced the 2018 auction of David and Peggy Rockefeller?s estate as the priciest art trove in auction history