Market Selection / Sep 19

Francis Bacon

A rotating selection of available works, chosen for their momentum in today's market.

Francis Bacon
Photo: Portrait: Reginald Gray, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Biography

Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British painter whose charged figurative works reshaped postwar painting through distortion, isolation, and psychological intensity. His portraits, crucifixions, popes, and figures in enclosed spaces explore the vulnerability of the body and the instability of representation. Bacon worked from photographs, art history, memory, and studio fragments, translating them into compressed images of force and exposure. His practice remains central to conversations about modern figuration, trauma, and the painted image after abstraction. For collectors, Bacon's work offers a demanding and influential vision of the human figure, marked by painterly risk and emotional concentration.

Market Performance

Directional market context based on recent public activity and available sales signals.

Yearly lots sold 38
Sell-through rate 84%
Sale price avg $2M
Price over estimate 15%
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