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KEY

TAKE

AWAYS

• Bacon’s top ten paintings alone account for sales auction total of nearly $1B, once

adjusted for inflation.

• 91.4% of Bacon’s sales revenue is achieved by works having surpassed $10M.

• Three of his artworks have each surpassed $100M once adjusted for inflation.

Artwork Sales date Auction price

*

Inflation-

adjusted price

(USD)

**

Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969

12/11/2013$142 404 992$181 678 515

Triptych, 1976

14/05/2008$86 281 000$120 226 049

Three Studies for Portrait of John Edwards, 1984

13/05/2014$80 805 000$101 869 767

Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus, 1981

29/06/2020$84 550 000$98 480 017

Portrait of George Dyer Talking, 1966

13/02/2014$70 207 152$88 953 089

Study from Innocent X, 1962

15/05/2007$52 680 000$76 271 175

Triptych 1974-1977, 1974-1977

06/02/2008 £26 340 500$72 724 184

Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1, 1969

14/11/2007$45 961 000$65 497 995

Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer, 1963

17/05/2017$51 767 500$63 198 015

Self-Portrait, 1978

21/06/2007 £21 580 000$62 019 859

Market share by price segment

Top 10 paintings by inflation-adjusted price

01M

10

30

50

400M

12B

2B

110M1050M50100M100M

Price

Volume

O F B ACO N’S AU C T I O N M A R K E T

Price

Analysis

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40

60

800M

16B

24B

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