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From: art market news Category: Art Date: 02 July 2008 Time: 04:46 PM Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/02auct.html?ref=design Bacons keep selling for multi-millions, despite the fact he is a really mediocre artists whose work says the same adolescent existential nonsense every time. In fact I have never seen a painting by Bacon which doesn't say OH NO we are screaming and can only be alone fucking in a blurry haze of paintings from photos and other paintings. They are filled with symbols of feeling, and evoke no emotions, except despair for all the people who love this melodrama. The colours are ugly and turgid too.