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Bacon’s Innocent X

February 9, 2007
12:53 PM

This is a superb portrait, painted by Velazquez in 1650.
The Pope in all his glory as a temporal ruler, looking at the world with unflinching eyes.

It is incredible that Francis Bacon’s also brilliant version of this picture
but showing Innocent as a cowed and broken man should have made
€21.2 million at Christie’s last night.

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