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Rare portrait by Francis Bacon fetches $52.5 million at auction

A painting by Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon of fellow U.K. painter Lucian Freud sold on Wednesday for ₤43.3 million ($52.5 millions), according to Sotheby’s auction house.

The price is an auction record for a painting by Bacon sold in London and also for any single panel painting by the artist.

“Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud,” painted in 1964, “exemplifies an iconic pairing of two of the most significant painters within the canon of twentieth-century art,” said the auction house.

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