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Lucian Freud ~ Francis Bacon

Lucian Freud
Francis Bacon, 1952
© The Lucian Freud Archive

Oil on Metal
7.8 x 12.7 cm
Tate Gallery
(Stolen while on loan in Berlin in 1988 and never seen again)

I saw this as a kid at Tate Britain just before it was 'permanently borrowed'. I always remembered just how small it was - small but I've never seen anything so powerful in just 12 cms or so. What a face! What a powerful face. It is Bacon yet it is not. It's more than him - it's the most striking head I have ever seen.

I wonder where it is today? Where once we could all enjoy it now someone, somewhere, has it all for themselves. But where the hell is it? I'm guessing it was stolen to order so a private collector would have it in a guarded room somewhere upon this earth.

Sad to think none of us will ever see it again.

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