Bacon Triptych heads to Qatar?
November 20 2013
Picture: Telegraph/Christie's
Apparently the buyer of the $142.4m Bacon triptych was the mega art buying Shiekha Mayassa bin Hamad al-Thani, of Qatar. More here. She is also thought to have bought the $250m Cezanne Card Sharps, which means she owns the most expensive pieces of art ever sold both privately and at auction.
A reader alerts me to this rather appropriate cartoon, from The New Yorker:
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