A Francis Bacon triptych, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" sells for $142.4 million.
Jeff Koons work sells for $58.4 million, making it the most expensive art by a living artist to sell at auction.
Is any art really worth this much or do a few wealthy investors artificially drive up the market to divert the rest of us from the reality of overall declining sales. If art is not worth as much as certain vested interests want us to believe, how do we determine the real worth of art?
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