Art Is Hard to See Through the Clutter of Dollar Signs - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/arts/design/art-is-hard-to-see-through-the-clutter-of-dollar-signs.html?nl=todaysheadli
Le tryptique de Francis Bacon vendu aux enchères pour 142 millions de dollars. Un nouveau record. Est-ce que cela a encore du sens ?
As our troubled age becomes ever more gilded, art auction prices soar with bone-numbing regularity. A new high-water mark was reached on Tuesday, when 1969 triptych by the British painter Francis Bacon sold for $142 million while the Christie’s auction in which it was featured took in $692 million. Both figures exceeded recent highs also at Christie’s: One arrived in spring 2012, when Edvard Munch’s “Scream” sold for $119 million; the other came last spring, when an auction total reached $492 million. It seems that people really, really like art these days.