'It's a very, very serious painting'

April 5 2012

Image of 'It's a very, very serious painting'

Picture: Sotheby's

So say Sotheby's of this Bacon, Figure Writing Reflected in a Mirror, to be sold at auction in May with a very serious estimate of $30-40m.

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