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Artist chose study to appear in first big retrospective in 1971. Dyer was found dead in couple’s hotel room 36 hours before show’s opening

Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of its modern and contemporary art sale.

Coinciding with the re-opening of the National Portrait Gallery in London on 22 June, and forming part of their Portrait Mode programme, this summer

Sotheby’s Celebrates National Portrait Gallery’s Reopening with Exhibitions and a Live Sale

The painting has become the most valuable work of art sold at auction in London this summer season so far, according to Sotheby’s.

Unseen for over half a century, Francis Bacon’s magnetic portrait of Lucian Freud is set to lead this season’s auctions in London, when it s

Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud was painted by British artist Bacon in 1964.

A Francis Bacon painting is set to be auctioned off later this month,  The portrait of Lucian Freud is expected to go for over £35 million on June 29.

Sotheby’s is staging a special exhibition of paintings of seven Queen regnants, alongside historic royal manuscripts and nealy 40 glittering…

The exhibition at Sothebys, on Londons New Bond Street, will showcase paintings of the seven queens who were crowned in their own right, alongside tiaras and royal documents.