A Francis Bacon goes big, but there were few fireworks at the sale of paintings from Condé Nast’s former chairman, who built one of the major art collections in the country.
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Lee Bontecou, Acclaimed Creator of Wall-Mounted Art, Dies at 91
Her use of what one critic called “a three-dimensional form that was neither painting nor sculpture” earned the kind of praise typically reserved in the 1960s for male art stars.