A woman passes Francis Bacon's 'Triptych' which fetched a record US$86.2 million in New York
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NEW YORK (AFP) - The sale comes a day after "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," a nude by British artist Lucian Freud, became the most expensive work ever by a living artist after selling for more than 34 million dollars in New York.

It demonstrated for the second consecutive week -- after robust impressionist sales at Sotheby's and Christie's last week -- that the faltering US economy has not gutted the international art market.

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