At Sotheby's put up a rare triptych brush Bacon

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The first lead at auction in 2011. They usually wake up in February:

In February, the trading house Sotheby's to auction rare painting by British artist Francis Bacon, an impressionist. On future trading British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
A small triptych, which depicts a portrait of Bacon's friend and rival artist Lucian Freud, never exhibited - from the moment of writing in 1965, he was kept in a private collection. Owner's name is not called, but sources say the publication that the painting belonged to the Geneva collector George Kostalittsu (George Kostalitz), who died last year.
Over the past 20 years has sold only four of Freud portrait of Bacon's hand. The last of them - as a triptych of small size - was bought in 2003 for 3.8 million dollars. Since then, the price of paintings Bacon grew up - in 2008, Roman Abramovich bought the painting by British artist for $ 86 million. However, the global economic crisis of 2008, prices for Bacon's work had fallen back.
One of the latest deals on paintings by Bacon in November 2010 - The personal doctor and close friend of the artist Paul Brass (Paul Brass) sold his painting titled "Figure in Motion" for 14 million dollars. Before you start trading cost of the painting was estimated at 10.7 million dollars.
This triptych was estimated at 7-9 million pounds.
( tape. Roux and The Daily Telegraph )