Bacon Sells Big

From the slums of Rio de Janeiro echoing with gunfire to the hushed wealth of Sotheby's auction room in New York. You can't complain that Coxsoft Art doesn't take you to see the world. Would you believe some tasteless fatcat paid £43m (£27m) for Francis Bacon's Triptych (1976)? That's a Bacon record. Isn't it reassuring to know that recession hasn't hit our multi-millionaires?