Francis Bacon’s Study of Nude with Figure in a Mirror

Francis Bacon’s Study of Nude with Figure in a Mirror, 1969, a rare full-length portrait of the artist’s close friend Henrietta Moraes, which achieved Ј19,956,500 ($39,779,291) selling to a European private collector bidding on the telephone. This remarkable price follows last year’s record $52,680,000 (Ј26,581,895) for the artist at auction, achieved for Study From Innocent X at Sotheby’s New York in May 2007.