BBC News reports
that a Francis Bacon self-portrait that has never been
seen by the public has surfaced 24 years after being sold by
the gay artist to a collector. Bacon painted Three
Studies, a triptych, in 1980 and kept it for two years
before selling it. The piece will be auctioned at
Christies in London on June 22 and is expected to sell
for 5.5 million pounds. Bacon once said: "I don't know
that I should talk about a triptych in my case. Of course,
there are three canvases, and you can link that to a
long-standing tradition. The primitives often used the
triptych format, but as far as my work is concerned, a
triptych corresponds more to the idea of a succession of
images on film." (The Advocate)
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