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Is the art world returning to normal?

We’ve just had an incredibly busy auction week [March 2022]; our 20th- and 21st-century sale was the biggest London’s ever had, with extraordinary interest and enthusiasm. Of course, the wonderful thing about Christie’s (8, King Street, St James’s, SW1) is that it’s also a free museum. Having worked remotely for so long, it was wonderful to see everyone there. There was an incredibly beautiful Franz Marc) by Francis Bacon of Trotsky’s study, Woodrow Wilson and Bacon’s lover, took £38 million; quite a political thing, all against the backdrop of the awful events in Ukraine.

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