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Francis bacon believe that too many people around you can be a drain to your resources.do you agree?

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Eight bidders wanted the small scarlet-hued Bacon, “Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud” (1964), and after a prolonged battle it was hammered down to the Cologne-based dealer Alex Lachmann who specialises in Russian clients. It was estimated at £7m-£9m and was the top lot in the sale. (The Financial Times: “Bacon sizzles at sell-out auction” by Georgina Adam, February 11, 2011)

Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud met in 1945 and became close friends. Bacon famously said about painting his friends: “If they were not my friends, I could not do such violence to them.” This statement told during an interview with David Sylvester in 1966 is reproduced in John Russell’s book Francis Bacon along with some contextual information relevant to the Bacon’s approach of portrait painting:

Talking to David Sylvester in 1966, Bacon said that the difficulty of painting portrait in present-day conditions was such that, for him, portraiture had replaced the mythological or religious subject as the most taxing of all form of painting. The difficulty in question is manyfold, but it springs above all from the fact that we no longer accept the unitary and unambiguous and closely structured of human personality which portrait-painting traditionally involves. We disbelieve in the monolith view of human nature; we are not awed ―quite the contrary― by the trappings of power; we see human beings as flawed, variable, self-contradictory, subject to the fugitive and the contingent. Portraiture belongs to the drawing-room, and our century has concentrated on the consulting-room, the maison de passe and the displaced persons’ camp.