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Francis Bacon Reveals the Inner Turmoil in His Art
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Adrian Ghenie's Unflinching Take on 20th Century Horrors
Led by David Hockney’s iconic The Splash, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction brings together a superb selection of works by some of the most engaging and cutting-edge artists of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Alongside Hockney’s masterpiece, the Evening Auction includes works of exceptional quality by Bridget Riley, Gerhard Richter, Yves Klein, Francis Bacon, Christopher Wool and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to name only a few.