On one of self-portraits Bacon painted himself with the body of Freud's Lusiena
ARTinvestment.RU   28 мая 2012

This discovery was made by experts at Christie's, which will soon expose the painting up for auction

Francis Bacon
a self-portrait sketch. Fragment. 1964
Estimate: £ 20 million
Source: guardian. co.uk


Francis Bacon and Freud Lusien about 1950
Source: leicestergalleries.com

Experts auction house Christie's set up an interesting fact: it turns out, a sketch of a self-portrait, made by Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon) in 1964, also hides the image of his close friend, renowned artist Lusiena Freud (Lucian Freud).

head of the character pattern deducted from the Bacon itself, but the body - from Freud. This conclusion is allowed to make the study of Bacon and Freud's photos taken by photographer John Deakin (John Deakin).

According Utreda Francis (Francis Outred), head of postwar and contemporary art Christie's, self-portrait of a completely unique, it is created by Bacon during the period of close association and friendship between the two artists as a sign of their special artistic and human intimacy.

work is estimated at 20 million pounds, price for similar works of Bacon is not uncommon . This is one of 12 self-portraits of Bacon's full-length, four of which already go back to their collections of various museums in the U.S. and Europe.

Francis Bacon and Freud introduced Lusiena another well-known British artist - Graham Sutherland ( Graham Sutherland) in 1945. Bacon and Freud, now one of the most expensive and sought-after artists on the British market , friends and exerted on each other a great impact as individuals and in terms of creativity.

friendship devoted to the topic of creative and other work that appears on the London auctions Christie's June 27, along with a self-portrait of Bacon, - "Head of the Greek," Freud's auction house estimated at 1.5-2 million pounds. The work was created on the basis of Freud's trip to the Greek island of Poros in the end of World War II with the artist John Krekstonom (John Craxton), and later went to the heirs of the latter, which expose it to the auction.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru



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