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Christie's has two works by Lucian Freud with a combined estimate of £6m in its February London sale following the new record price set at $86.265 million

Paul Allen's billion-dollar collection will be sold on November 9 & 10 in New York with three works estimated above $100 million

Unseen for 57 years, the central panel from a triptych portrait that Bacon himself broke up appears in London

Lucien Freud’s Girl with Closed Eyes, a portrait of Janey Longman painted by Freud in his sixties, will be offered during Christie’s March 1st relay sale connecting sale rooms in Shanghai and London. The work is being offered with its estimate upon request, a strategy that allows the house to gauge demand for the work in real time, but the whisper number places expectations above £10 million for the small canvas.