Sentence examples for bullfight study from inspiring English sources
Sotheby's has definitely had a mixed year: a November 7 sale of highly desired Impressionist and modern works was seen as a disaster, but the company rebounded a week later with a sale of contemporary art — including a stunning bullfight study by Francis Bacon — of record proportions.
Bidding through several different art dealers, he is said to have bought several artworks, among them Francis Bacon's 1969 "Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1," for $45.9 million.
"Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1" (1969), on a theme that Bacon was obsessed with, was the evening's most expensive painting, selling for $45.9 million.
"You have to start somewhere," he added, although, having bought de Kooning's "Woman III" from David Geffen for $137.5 million and having spent $45.9 million at a recent auction for Francis Bacon's "Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1," there is no reason to imagine Mr. Cohen has any plans to stop.
| Rothko, Koons, and Warhol are prominently featured in Sotheby's evening sale (Nov. 14), which also includes two works by Francis Bacon: "Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1" (from a series of three Bacon works on this brutal subject) and "Self-Portrait," made at the age of sixty.
In Madrid, he studies the ramifications of the bullfight with help from the critic Kenneth Tynan and his wife.
Six bulls and three bullfighters participate in the traditional bullfight, each matador fighting two bulls; a variation on this is the mano-a-mano bullfight, which is a duel between two matadors, each killing two or three bulls.
We shall have a bullfight".
