????已故畫家弗朗西斯?培根是生于愛爾蘭的英國人，他所作的三聯(lián)畫在去年秋天佳士得（Christie）的拍賣中拍出了1.424億美元的高價(jià)，創(chuàng)下了這家拍賣行藝術(shù)品拍賣價(jià)格的新紀(jì)錄，震動(dòng)了全球藝術(shù)界。本月早些時(shí)候，佳士得與競爭對手蘇富比（Sotheby）為帕博羅?畢加索、胡安?格里斯以及卡米耶?畢沙羅這些藝術(shù)家的作品創(chuàng)下了更多的紀(jì)錄。今天，我們在這里盤點(diǎn)了半個(gè)世紀(jì)以來創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的藝術(shù)品拍賣。

????It was a triptych by the late Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon that blew away the art world last fall, fetching a record $142.4 million for any work when sold at a Christie's auction. Earlier this month, Christie's and rival Sotheby's (BID) generated more record sales for works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, and Camille Pissarro. Here, we take a look at the high-priced art sales that have made history over the past 50 years.

????1961年

????帕克勃內(nèi)畫廊（Parke-Bernet Galleries，后被蘇富比收購）將倫勃朗的《亞里士多德對荷馬的頭作冥想》（Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer）以230萬美元的價(jià)格出售給了大都會(huì)藝術(shù)博物館（Metropolitan Museum of Art），創(chuàng)造了當(dāng)時(shí)的繪畫拍賣紀(jì)錄。

????1961

????Parke-Bernet Galleries (later acquired by Sotheby's) sells Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $2.3 million, at the time a record for any painting sold at auction.