BACON TRIPTYCH SELLS FOR $34.4 MILLION

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London-Monday 30th June.

Christie's Auction House London

Francis Bacon's "Three Studies for Self-Portrait" from 1975 was on everyones radar as four determined bidders vied for this work.

The Bacon triptych, made up of 14x12" panels went for well above its $20 million estimate. Francis Bacon began painting self-portraits in the 1960's and by the mid 1970's after the death of his partner, George Dyer he had begun a series of self-portrait heads.