2. Francis Bacon's Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards
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At a Christie's sale in New York on May 13 this year, Chen Taiming, chairman of Taiwan's YAGEO Group, consigned Li Xin, the head of Christie's Asia Department, to buy the painting for him for $80.8 million.
An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.