October 19, 2008


Freud’s portrait of Bacon sells for 9 million

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7 Responses to “Freud’s portrait of Bacon sells for 9 million”

  1. Sasidhar on October 20th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    that’s a lot of money for something as simple as that…

  2. juian Merrow-Smith on October 20th, 2008 at 1:29 am

    Blast, outbid again

  3. Lucy Foley on October 20th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    There’s an interesting story about Freud’s other portrait of Bacon, which walked off the wall of a major museum about 20 years ago, I think in Berlin, and hasn’t been seen since. Freud was convinced that it was taken by someone in love with Bacon, and imagined it would be sitting in some dark little hovel in Prenzlauerberg, worshipped in the dark like the Mona Lisa, when it was stolen a century ago. It could never actually be sold. It’s too well known.

  4. Mike Dresser on October 20th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Reading the headline, I expected a yawning gulf of pork belly, with perhaps a phallus of some sort thrown in.

    I need to get more culture.

  5. Lucy Foley on October 20th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Maybe you just need more pork.

  6. Phil Bebbington on October 20th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Freud and Bacon I love and can take in abundance, however, Pork I find has to be one mouthful at a time but then perhaps that’s the restrained Englishman in me.

  7. Sheila Ryan on October 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    “I’d like you to have a bite of my pork . . . because . . . it’s the world.” Johnny Depp as CIA Agent Sands in the otherwise disappointing Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

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