Famous artworks by artists including Hockney, Bacon, Monet and Magritte are expected to sell for tens of millions at London’s Christie’s auction house.
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00:16 This is one of the most exciting auctions that we've put together here in London.
00:20 This is March the 2021 season and it's led by some of the greatest figurative paintings by
00:26 British artists Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews. Those are the
00:32 pictures that make my heart stir and the painting behind me is Landscape near Malabarta, Tangier,
00:37 by Francis Bacon from 1963. It was an extraordinary picture that was painted at the height of personal
00:44 tragedy and triumph. It commemorates the artist's lover, Peter Lacey, who died in 1962, around the
00:52 same time that he had a major Tate retrospective. So these were moments of personal anguish but also
00:58 professional triumph.