Auction house brings home the €25.4m Bacon
Last night, an unknown art lover forked out £21.3 million (€25.4m) for Bacon’s 1963 Portrait of Henrietta Moraes in the space of time it takes most of us to buy €4 Lotto quickpick.
Bacon’s portrait of Henrietta — a larger-than-life figure in 1960s Soho and the former lover of Lucian Freud — is seen as a breakthrough in his painting of female nudes.