PAINTING SELLS FOR $142.4 MILLION

        That's what the headline read, Painting sells for $142.4 million, in U.S. dollars.  There is hope for all of us.

        So what would make a single piece of art so valuable you ask?  Well to be honest with you it makes no sense to me either.

       
 The painting titled Three Studies of Lucian Freud, by Francis Bacon, 1969.  So a little background on the artist.  Francis Bacon was born in Ireland in 1909 and died in 1992 and had gone through three different periods or fazes during his career; Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.  Although this style of art has always intrigued me, I have to admit I find Bacon's work rather unsettling and at times grotesque.

        I believe his life and bizarre background had something to do with the exceptional high price this painting brought in, and who actually purchased it, and why, that is another mystery.

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