$49.8 M. Francis Bacon Portrait Leads Solid $397.1 M. Christie’s Contemporary Sale, Records Fall for Joan Mitchell, Robert Gober, Morris Louis
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait, 1977, oil and dry-transfer lettering on canvas, sold for $49.8 million. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S Anchored by a powerful Francis Bacon cover-lot portrait, Christie’s closed the season’s…