Bacon's Freud portrait sells for over €100m

A Francis Bacon painting of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has become the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction – fetching over €100m.

Bacon's Freud portrait sells for over €100m

A Francis Bacon painting of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has become the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction – fetching over €100m.

The Dublin-born artist’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142,405,000 (€106,198,000) after just six minutes of bidding in New York.

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