Vanity Fair UK - 11.2019

000 VANITY FAIR ON TIME AUTUMN 2019

Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud’s portraits

of one another reveal one of the most

notable friendships in modern art history—

and one of its greatest unsolved mysteries

By MARTIN GAYFORD

Mates

PORTRAITS

BY HARRY DIAMOND

Francis Bacon (left) with Lucian Freud

in London, 1974

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