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A $21 Million Francis Bacon Portrait and a Bevy of Middle Eastern Bidding Fuel Sotheby's $88.4 Million Postwar London Sale
Francis Bacon (artist) - “The open-necked shirt is one of Bacon's ciphers for Peter Lacy, and is a detail, like Lacy's body shape and crossed leg pose, that supports the argument that
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