Francis Bacon’s Last “Pope” Painting to Sell Next Month at Christie’s in London

September 18th, 2017

The last of Francis Bacon’s Pope paintings will hit the auction block this fall at Christie’s in London, estimated to sell for over £60 million, the BBC reports. “It is a tragic premonition which unites Bacon’s two greatest muses, the Pope and George Dyer, for the first and only time,” Francis Outred, Christie’s head of post-war and contemporary art says of the work.Read more at BBC