A rediscovered Francis Bacon is to be offered at Christie’s next month with a £7m-10m estimate.
Head with Raised Arm (1955) was last exhibited in 1962 at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna in Turin. It was bought by the current (unnamed) owner the following year, and has not been on public view since.
Its location was listed as ‘unknown’ in the most recent version of Bacon’s catalogue raisonné published last year by Martin Harrison, and it will now be available to view at several previews ahead of its sale on October 6 at Christie’s post-war and contemporary art evening auction.