FRANCIS BACON Painting Could Sell For Millions At Auction

A portrait by FRANCIS BACON of his lover and muse is going up for auction in Christie on Feb 13, which an estimated price of 30 million pounds ( $49.3 millions)

"Portrait of George Dyer Talking" depicts a young Londoner with whom Bacon had a turbulent relationship. It was exhibited at Bacon's first major retrospective show in Paris in 1971. Dyer killed himself just before it opened.

Francis Outred, head of contemporary art at Christie's Europe, said Wednesday that the painting offered "a powerful portrait of arguably one of Bacon's greatest loves."