Undated handout photo issued by Christie's of Portrait of George Dyer Talking by Francis Bacon, which the auction house will be offering for sale at their Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction next month and is expected to fetch in the region of ?30m. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday January 15, 2014. The almost two-metre tall canvas features Dyer, Bacon's tragic muse and lover, who died of an overdose in Paris two days before the painting was displayed at Bacon's first major retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971. See PA story SALE Bacon. Photo credit should read: Christie's/PA WireNOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%An artwork depicting the tragic muse and lover of record-breaking artist Francis Bacon is estimated to fetch around £30 million next month - the first time such a work has come up for auction in a decade.
The almost two-metre tall canvas features George Dyer, who died of an overdose in Paris two days before the painting was displayed at Bacon's first major retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971.
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