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Friends, soulmates, rivals: the double life of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud

They were the 20th century's Turner and Constable

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud are likely to go down together in art history. If the link had not already been set in cement, it certainly became so at Christie’s New York last month, when Bacon’s ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ (1969), a three-part portrait of his friend and colleague, went for $142.4

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