canvas depicting a nude lying on a bed nudes puts a New York collector, who decided to test the response of the art market for high-quality contemporary works. Bacon - the most expensive British artist, if judged by the auction statistics. Portrait of a never before appeared at a public auction and has no guaranteed minimum price, said of Christie's. The work dates from the year of the beginning of relations with the artist George Dyer (George Dyer).

"Our own lack of interest in Bacon's naked female nature in no way affected his work, which came out just as passionate, as well as images of naked male artist agitated bodies", - the British art critic David Sylvester, (David Sylvester), who got an interview with Bacon in 1960 -70s.

Moraes was a close friend of Bacon in the 1950s and '60s. Just as Bacon and Freud Lusien, it was a private club frequented the Colony Room in Soho. Henrietta suffered from alcohol and drug abuse, often changed lovers, and once even landed in jail for a failed attempted robbery. Henrietta Moraes Some photos taken by John Deakin (John Deakin), served as inspiration for Bacon, who made a number of scenic images.

«Portrait of Henrietta Moraes," which will be February 14 at Christie's, Bacon created around the time when New York's Guggenheim Museum held its first American retrospective. We were just two of the owner: German industrialist Willie Shnivind (Willy Schniewind) owned a portrait until 1983, when it was bought by the present owner offering a work at Christie's.

«Triptych» Bacon (1976) was sold for 86.3 million dollars at Sotheby's in New York in May 2008, and the artist is yet personal auction record. According to dealers, the buyer was Roman Abramovich. Despite a slight decline in interest in Bacon in the period after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the price has since recovered . 'three sketches a portrait of Lusiena Freud "(1964) in February 2011 at Sotheby's went under the hammer for 23 million pounds ($ 37 million). This is the best auction result of modern art in 2011.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI