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How You Can Own a Francis Bacon Painting for Only $100

$100 for a piece of Francis Bacon’s $55 million painting? That’s the kind of opportunity investors will have when “Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer” IPOs in July.

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‘Astonishing, luminous beauty’: readers’ cultural highlights in Europe

The secrets to ancient Greek innovations, art in its rightful place, and gorgeous statues and views from Dublin to Albania

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Roald Dahl threatened publisher with ‘enormous crocodile’ if they changed his words

Conversation with Francis Bacon emerges amid the row over updating controversial language in the children’s author’s books

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The Artist’s Studio by James Hall review – lust, crime and creativity

From Bernini to Bacon, the artist’s studio has long been a place of passion and tragedy, offering a unique glimpse into the creative mind

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Did Western philosophy ruin Earth?

Much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has led directly to unspeakable evil

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art

Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch

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Daniel Craig’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

With Craig about to return as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, we take a look through the blond Bond’s action-packed filmography

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Lovers’ drunken brawl nearly cost Francis Bacon an eye, diaries reveal

The spat and injury inspired Bacon to paint his violent expressionist canvas Self-Portrait with Injured Eye

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‘I’ve got a feeling I won’t be on stage again’: Derek Jacobi on age, ego, Igglepiggle and unrequited love

Sixty-five years after his first rave reviews, the star of I, Claudius and Last Tango in Halifax is still drowning in work – and self-doubt. Can a man who won Ian McKellen’s heart really see himself as ‘bland and uninteresting’?

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Francis Bacon triptych sells for record £24.3m at auction in London

Artwork had been on show at New York museum since death of media tycoon owner in 1990

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Francis Bacon triptych sells for £24.3m at auction

Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes was sold on Friday.

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Rock snapper Kevin Cummins: ‘I still leave space for the NME logo in the corner’

The man who created more than 250 cover images for the rock weekly has put together a book of almost 40 years of photographs of the Fall. ‘We put Manchester on the map,’ he says

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Francis Bacon triptych could sell for more than £30m at auction debut

The work is being previewed at Sotheby’s in London.

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Kamala Ibrahim Ishag review – memory maps and rumours of djinns from mystical Sudanese painter

Inspired by William Blake and Francis Bacon, Ishag traces winding webs of families and friendships with depictions of plants, neighbourhoods and – her main subject – women

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The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

HellSans by Ever Dundas; Leech by Hiron Ennes; Jackdaw by Tade Thompson; The Green Man of Eshwood Hall by Jacob Kerr; and The Black Maybe by Attila Veres

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David Hockney painting pictured ahead of first public sale in more than 30 years

The piece could sell for as much as £10 million.

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Love Lucian by David Dawson and Martin Gayford review

Lucian Freud’s letters reveal the artist in all his rambunctious, irreverent and amusing glory

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Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed

From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss

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September design news: Francis Bacon and fry-up chic

Green graduates set to save the future, turning scraps into kitchen knives and new art from director Mark Cousins

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On my radar: Claes Bang’s cultural highlights

The Danish actor on a horror film from his homeland, the physical impact of Francis Bacon and his favourite London restaurant

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‘A class of his own’: Sale of rare Bacon works marks 30th anniversary of artist’s death

The auction will include rarely seen paintings, a rug, photographs and letters

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The big idea: should revenge ever be a part of justice?

Harsh retribution for violent crimes might feel right, but does it do more harm than good?

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‘Home for hell-raisers’: new owners of Groucho Club seek young blood

Private members’ club that takes pride in being a ‘hub for creatives’ to consider international expansion

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‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

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‘Sigmund would have loved this’ – Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family review

The painter’s sex life drove his art. Does this show think that’s too vulgar to go into? The result is richly ironic: a case of repression in the building that houses Sigmund’s consulting couch

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