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• Bacon’s top ten paintings alone achieved nearly $1B in sales revenue.

• 91.4% of Bacon’s sales revenue was made by works selling above $10M.

• Three of his artworks have topped $100M in actualised value.

Artwork Sales date

Auction price

*

Actualised

price (USD)

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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

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

01M

110M

10

30

50

400M

12B

2B

1050M50100M100M

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