Abramovich and Francis Bacon

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear colleagues,

Just to let you know  about an interesting article that discusses  
Roman Abramovich's taste in art, lifestyle, etc. It's titled Roman's  
Empire. See today's issue of The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/romans-empire-where-abramovich-spends-his-billions-830582.html
It says:
"Roman Abramovich has been revealed by The Art Newspaper to be the  
mystery buyer who bought Francis Bacon's Triptych (1976) for $86.3m  
(£44m) at Sotheby's New York last week, as well as splashing out  
$33.6m on Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), at  
Christie's. Both works made auction history, the Bacon achieving the  
highest price for a postwar work of art and Freud becoming the most  
expensive living artist at auction, taking the title from Jeff Koons."


All best,
Alexandra



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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk





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