已故画家弗朗西斯•培根是生于爱尔兰的英国人，他所作的三联画在去年秋天佳士得（Christie）的拍卖中拍出了1.424亿美元的高价，创下了这家拍卖行艺术品拍卖价格的新纪录，震动了全球艺术界。本月早些时候，佳士得与竞争对手苏富比（Sotheby）为帕博罗•毕加索、胡安•格里斯以及卡米耶•毕沙罗这些艺术家的作品创下了更多的纪录。今天，我们在这里盘点了半个世纪以来创纪录的艺术品拍卖。

    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

    帕克勃内画廊（Parke-Bernet Galleries，后被苏富比收购）将伦勃朗的《亚里士多德对荷马的头作冥想》（Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer）以230万美元的价格出售给了大都会艺术博物馆（Metropolitan Museum of Art），创造了当时的绘画拍卖纪录。

    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.