Next month Christie’s International will be auctioning a study of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon - and is expected to fetch £5 million. Christie’s specialist, Pilar Ordovas said “Bacon is totally international, his work appeals to both museums and to wealthy individuals.

Indeed, another of Bacon’s Pope studies was sold by Christie’s New York last November for $10.1 million - a record for Bacon’s work.

Also in the sale is Lucian Freud’s “Man in a String Chair” with an expected price tag of up to £4 million - his “Red-Haired Man on a Chair” went for a record £4.2 million last year.

Story by Linda Sandler of the International Herald Tribune here

Bacon pictures here

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