Your Money: FOCUS ON FRANCIS BACON.(Business)

From: Sunday Mirror (London, England) | Date: September 9, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: JAMES BREESE

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LONDON'S Royal College of Art is offering a remarkable painting with an even more remarkable story behind it. The Kensington institution wants to fund a new campus in Battersea and is selling a picture by Francis Bacon to help.

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"STUDY from the Human Body, Man Turning on the Light" was given to the college by the artist as rent for the use of a studio in 1969. A fire had destroyed his studio so ...

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