07/02/2008 - CONTEMPORARY ART SALES CONTINUE TO ASTOUND Sotheby's evening sale of Contemporary art set a record for its second highest auction total in Europe at $188.8 million. 94.5% of the lots sold, with the biggest gain coming from Francis Bacon's painting of his lover 'Study for Head of George Dyer' which sold for $27.5M.
U2 sold a piece by the artist Basquiat for $10 million