Francis Bacon's oil painting Lucian Freud "appeared

A picture Lucian Freud to bacon, and has been on display in private since 1965, not in any place, after a year appear picture, art is sold in London next month.
Three research Lucian triptych a portrait of a powerful rendering Freud at 14 inches of small portraits, and out x proof, one of the most important art and the relationship between the century.
Bacon and Freud met in 1945 through the artist graham Sutherland, became close friends, if competition draw these other several times. In a certain period, they together in nearly every day watering, often in their favorite colonial hole, in soho room. But their friendship cooling dispute has more than seventy years old.
There are only four description Freud's bacon has been in auction nearly twenty years history. Finally in 2003 when a very similar small triptych sold to Pierre Chen, Yageo, chairman of the foundation, for Taiwan $3.8 million (denomination 163; 2.2 million), it is often record. These size bacon painting
From then on, the price bacon have risen dramatically in May 2008, 16 league titles and $8.6 million (163 bill payment, 44 million dollars) triptych Roman. Roman abramovich is larger.
However, bacon top drawer painting has set up a file in the auction process, the lack of the credit crunch. Since the summer of 2008, four works quality is uneven already sold, created the bacon market uncertainty state, potential sellers have been waiting for someone else to take the first step to determine the strength. Sotheby's hope, this is break the deadlock last November's a cricket player belongs to bacon's late painting doctor, Paul brass, clinch a deal valence is $14 million (8.7 million yuan), comfortable above its estimate.
Considering the two small format self-portrait bacon triptychs 14 pounds has more than, 2008, the 7 million pounds, an estimated 9 million pounds Freud triple seems to have no reason. Oppose it only a little is recently, it has been provided, and not sell privately, but for a much higher total.
Sotheby's is who, is said to sell picture, this is the direct purchase from bacon's distributor, City street view oil painting, 1965, in addition to show that this is a part of the family genetics. Trade sources, however, confirm that it belongs to the Geneva collectors, George Kostalitz, who died last year. A man about his private mini record, Kostalitz is said to have close relations of cooperation with Classical alley oil painting the head of the contemporary art.