Portrait of Peter Lacy, a lover of Francis Bacon, for auction of postwar and contemporary art Sotheby's on May 14 in New York

FRANCIS BACON sketch for a portrait of PL 1962
Sotheby's. 14.05.2013
Estimate: $ 30-40 million
Source: guardian . co.uk

The auction of postwar and contemporary art Sotheby's on May 14 in New York exhibited "Sketch for a portrait of PL" brush Francis Bacon. The painting captures the beloved artist, a military pilot, Peter Lacy, known for his cruelty to Bacon. During one of the fights, for example, he pushed the artist on the window glass. As art historian John Richardson wrote, during this incident Bacon face hurt so that he had to sew up his right eye. The artist continued to love his tormentor. When Lacy moved to the Moroccan city of Tangier, Bacon visited him regularly. In Tangier Lacy and he died of alcoholism in 1962. On the day that Bacon learned of the death of her lover, the Tate opened his retrospective. A few months later in the same 1962 Bacon wrote "Sketch for a portrait of PL».

artist depicted Peter Lacy vulnerable background seemed to prevail over the figure of a model. Glass of red wine in his hand, refers to the fatal passion, svedshey Bacon lover to the grave. Picture of the last time participated in a public exhibition in 1972. The current owner bought it in the mid-2000s.

The auction of postwar and contemporary art Sotheby's addition of a portrait of Bacon will also be offered work of Jackson Pollock" Blue Unconscious "with an estimate of 20-30 million dollars and landscape «Milan. Cathedral Square "Gerhard Richter 30-40 million .

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources : artinvestment.ru