Update

[poliphilo]

The Lucian Freud portrait of Francis Bacon sold for £5.4 million- well under its asking price. That's still a hell of a lot of money.

Comments

[sina-says.livejournal.com]

i'm working up a good reply. it's been so long since i was an art history student. my critical analysis skills are rusty. but it's fun, and i've been meaning to write about lucian freud since you asked. more coming soon.

i also love francis bacon. (although i do agree that the portrait that sold looks like a moldy pear). perhaps moreso than freud. i'll get to that, too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I'm looking forward to reading it.

I don't particularly like Bacon, but I think he's a greater and more challenging artist than Freud.