by Eadweard Muybridge. Value and ownership The triptych was sold by Marlborough Fine Art to the Norwegian industrialist and art collector Hans Rasmus Astrup in 1984. It was displayed at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo from its foundation in 1993, until it was deaccessioned and sold in 2020, to put the museum on a stronger financial basis and to enable it to make new acquisitions to diversify its collection. An auction scheduled for 13 May 2020 was postponed, and the painting was eventually sold for US$84,550,000 in an online auction held by Sotheby's in New York on 29 June 2020. The price was the third highest paid for a Bacon work at auction, after the US$142.4 million paid for Three Studies of Lucian Freud in 2013, and US$86.3 million paid for Triptych, 1976 in 2008. References Lot 105: Francis Bacon, Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus, Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction, June 2020 Sotheby’s to Offer Francis Bacon’s Large-Format Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus This May in New York, Sotheby's, 6 March 2020 Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus, francis-bacon.com Francis Bacon: Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus, francis-bacon.com, 27 March 2020 Francis Bacon Triptych Sells for $84.6 Million, New York Times, 29 June 2020 1981 paintings Paintings by Francis Bacon Triptychs Works based on Agamemnon (Aeschylus play) Works based on The Libation Bearers Works based on The Eumenides Modern adaptations of works by Aeschylus Paintings based on works by Aeschylus