A landmark painting by Francis Bacon, shown in public only once, is hitting the auction block this spring with an estimate of $20 million to $30 million. Grégoire Billault, the head of Sotheby’s ...

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1. Francis Bacon and Nelson J. Diaz, London (1985), During academic work,(Holder, Nelson J. Diaz). 2. Red Singularity, Painting,( Nelson J. Diaz) 3. Pope model in a Beltrami 4d geomtery. 4. Francis ...

Francis Bacon’s iconic Screaming Pope, from the collection of Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis, is expected to sell for between $20 million and $30 million at a Sotheby’s sale of contemporary art ...

A Francis Bacon painting considered one of his most important still privately owned has sold at auction for more than $50 million (£39 million) at Sotheby's. Study For A Head (1952), from Bacon's ...

Francis Bacon’s Study for a Head, one of his iconic paintings of the Screaming Pope series, fetched $50.4 million including fees ($44 million at the hammer), following a four-minute fierce battle ...