The portrait paintings of Bacon were auctioned for the first time, with a valuation of 284 million yuan

Jimu News reporter Zhang Yang

A portrait created by the famous painter Francis Bacon will be auctioned in Sotheby's in London at the end of this month. This is the first time that the painting has been auctioned in history. The expert valuation is as high as 35 million pounds (about 284 million yuan).

Loician Freud Portrait Research

According to CNN, the auction will be held on June 29 in Sotheby's auction house in London. Experts estimate that the transaction price of this painting may be as high as £ 35 million. According to Sotheby's, in the past 40 years, the "Loisian Freud Portrait Research" has been privately collected and has never appeared in the public vision. The auction house will display this painting on weekends before the auction.

The "Luxian Freud Portrait Research" created in 1964 is the core part of the large -scale three -united paintings, which is also the art form that Bacon likes. These paintings vividly reflect the various states of British artist Lucian Freud. He was a close friend of Bacon, but by the mid -1980s, the two became enemies. After the three paintings were completed in 1965, they were exhibited in Stockholm and Hamburg. Now the two side plates are divided into a museum belonging to Jerusalem, and a private collector. This auction is the central painting part.

Loician Freud Portrait Research

The relationship between Bacon and Freud also adds another layer of complexity and value to this portrait. The two met in 1944. They are said to have been inseparable. Until the 1980s, professional competition made their relationship worse.

In 2018, the British newspaper "Observer" shared several recording at the time that Bacon had publicly laughed at Freud's painting skills. By 1982, Freud and Bacon, the two pillars of British contemporary art, did not speak between them. Bacon's "Portrait Research on Luschen Freud" was painted in the past and because it became a symbol of the disappearance of friendship, so it was even more melancholy.

According to the daughter of Lucian Freud and fashion designer Bella Freud, the deterioration friendship between the two artists left a long shadow to his father. She said at a press conference: "Francis is obviously a person I admire and admire, and there are not many people who can recognize my father. When he talked about Bacon, it was dazzling, amazing, and completely unstoppable. Think, when their friendship disappears, my father must miss. "

Bacon's paintings are called big names at the auction, and his works often break the pre -sale assessment. In 2020, the "Trinity inspired by Eskoros O'Restia" he created in 1981 was sold at a price of $ 84 million, exceeding the initial estimated $ 60 million. In 2013, another 1969 Lucian Freud triple paintings sold at a price of $ 142 million in just 6 minutes, and won the title of the most expensive artwork in the history of auction at the time. However, this title was won by Da Vinci's "Savior" in 2017. At that time, the painting was sold out of $ 450 million.

(Picture source: CNN)

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