Francis Bacon self-portraits at Sotheby’s in New York estimated at €19.1m-€26.1m

An optimistic Francis Bacon double self portrait will lead Sotheby’s sale of contemporary art in New York next Wednesday evening.

Two Studies for a Self-Portrait (1970) portrays an elated Bacon a year before his career-defining retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1971.

He was only the second living artist, after Picasso, to be awarded this honour.