サザビーズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (サザビーズInstagram)「Taking to the rostrum for the first time in “Rembrandt to Richter” is this deeply personal portrayal of John Edwards by Francis Bacon. Painted in 1986, the artist met Edwards twelve years earlier in Soho’s The Colony Room Club – a member’s drinking club regularly frequented by Bacon and other luminaries, including Lucian Freud, David Bowie, Princess Margaret and George Melly. At that time, Edwards was managing three pubs across London. He had been told that Bacon and his friends were planning a visit to one of them so acting on advice, he ordered several crates of the artist’s favourite champagne 🍾. But, when the party failed to arrive, Edwards was furious and wasn’t shy in telling Bacon what he thought of his selfishness. Despite a somewhat rocky start to their friendship, Bacon and Edwards – who he nicknamed “Eggs” – would go onto became an inseparable duo, and one of the artist’s closest and most trusted companions. 👆Click the link in bio to read the full story, and 👉 to see the portrait in yesterday’s @telegraph. #RembrandtToRichter #SothebysContemporary #francisbacon」7月19日 22時34分