‘Selfies’ by Francis Bacon go on sale at London auction
Sotheby’s says self-portraits ‘exude conceptual brilliance and painterly genius’
Sotheby’s says self-portraits ‘exude conceptual brilliance and painterly genius’
The Spanish master’s portraits of royal children were dispatched to European capitals to curry marriage possibilities. But the ‘painter of painters’ also recorded the fading world of the Habsburgs with startling realism
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