the art market bubble bursts?

I'm not really surprised the economic downturn finally hit the previously insatiable art market, with some major sales recently reporting far less than stellar results.  I do find myself morbidly curious about what sold and what didn't.  At an auction at Christie's last month, for example, the rare Lucian Freud painting of Francis Bacon pictured at right sold for over a million pounds under its estimated price, and a beautiful abstract work by Gerhard Richter didn't sell at all.  To see more pieces from that sale at Christie's and another similar one at Sotheby's that sold well under expectations or never even left the wall please click through to the gallery here.  And as long as no one else wants it, if someone was to snap up that Richter for me...