Portraits of celebrated muses by Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso come up at Sotheby’s in New York next month. Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of George Dyer (estimate $35-45 million) depicting the artist’s great love and most prevalent subject, comes up at the Contemporary Art evening sale on November 16. Pablo Picasso’s Buste de femme au chapeau (estimate $18-25 million) comes up at the Impressionist and Modern evening sale on November 14. Each work is appearing at auction for the first time.
Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme au chapeau, Oil on canvas, Estimate $18/25 million
Francis Bacon, Three Studies of George Dyer, Oil on canvas, in three parts, Estimate $35/45 million