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Bacon Self-Portrait May Fetch More Than $30 Million at Auction
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A Francis Bacon self-portrait is estimated to raise more than 20 million pounds ($31.3 million) at an auction in London.
Bacon’s 1964 “Study for Self-Portrait” will be included in Christie’s International’s June 27 sale of postwar and contemporary art. The auction house announced the sale in an e-mail today and wasn’t prepared to divulge the name or nationality of the seller.