Bacon’s “rubbish” realises £1.1m at auction
Caroline:
April 30th, 2007
Of course it depends on what sort of friends you have, but if any of them ever offer you what you consider to be a load of old rubbish, you might be well off to accept. The artist Francis Bacon was about to throw out the “rubbish” from his infamously untidy studio but allowed his friend Mac Robertson to salvage what he could carry. Almost thirty years later the “spoils” which included letters and diaries were auctioned off for £1.1m with cheques signed by Bacon selling for £650 and a postcard fetching £10,000.