A year ago, Sotheby’s sold a 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon for $86.3 million. On Tuesday night, Sotheby’s entire contemporary art auction brought in $47 million, just more than half of what the Bacon piece had fetched.
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An untitled sculpture by Robert Gober of a man’s rear end with musical notes on it became one of the evening’s biggest casualties. It wasn’t the only work to go unsold; others included mediocre examples by Frank Stella, and Richard Serra.
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