Francis Bacon Led Sotheby's Sale of a Mystery Collector's Art to a White-Glove $150 Million

Powered in part by Francis Bacon's petitely-scaled 1964 triptych of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud, which made $37 million, Sotheby's pulled off a 100-percent-sold single-owner sale that fetched $150,455,941, easily hurdling its high estimate.

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Every last piece of art on offer in London Thursday sold, including a Dali that became the most expensive Surrealist artwork to sell at auction.