After going through the pictures you must be wondering if the artist ran short of canvas! At Maison Et Objet, 2010 held at Paris, this must be the look on everybody’s face! Frédérique morrel, a French firm, introduced its ‘passe murailles’ collection, which means ‘the slice of life’.

All the artifacts shown in this collection are hand made and unique (as each work of art is made from tapestry pieces in a way that establishes a connection between the themes!).Frédérique morrel, is led by a couple, has come up with an idea which not only helped it create these magnum opuses but it also saved the craftsmanship involved in the embroidery from going waste.

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A three-panel art work by Francis Bacon lately got success in breaking the NYC auction record at contemporary art auction on 14 May. It fetched in sales of $86 million plus after three bidders contended for it. The $86,281,000 price of the masterwork “Triptych, 1976” also set an auction record for the British artist. Another artwork that set an auction record is a 1963 painting “Overdrive” by pop artist Robert Rauschenberg. The painting generated sales of $14.6 million plus. Both the artworks got sold to an anonymous buyer and the aforementioned prices include the commission of the auction house.

Note: Counted 10 artworks from the lot of 83 failed to sell, thereby breaking records for almost 18 artists starting from Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Tom Wesselmann and Takashi Murakami.

Via AP