10 Most Expensive Works of Art of All Time

No. 6 Francis Bacon – “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, (1969)

Last year, at Christie’s New York, this piece of art was sold by Francesco De Simone Niquesa to an unknown buyer at a price of $142.4 million. The triptych was painted by Bacon in 1969 at the Royal College of Art in London, and first exhibited a year later at the Galleria d’Arte Galatea in Turin. Christie’s stated that “Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969 marks the epic culmination of Francis Bacon’s relationship with fellow painter and chronicler of the human condition, Lucian Freud”.