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First Look: Francis Bacon, Two Studies for a Self-Portrait

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Two Studies for a Self-Portrait represents the pinnacle of Francis Bacon’s most significant and enduring body of work: the self-portrait. This work is a major highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 11 May in New York.

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