S9E1:Francis Bacon Portrait
Auction
1 Jan 2018TV-G
In New York, excited bidders are shuttling between Sotheby’s and Christie’s for the annual May sales of post-war and contemporary art. And records are being set. Not one, but three Francis Bacon paintings go under the hammer. An Abstract Impressionist masterpiece by Hans Hoffmann gets the connoisseurs excited. But will Cy Twombly’s painting Leda and the Swan make the millions expected?
