At Christie’s in London is a never-before auctioned piece of art that has everyone abuzz. It’s a Francis Bacon piece of British artist Lucien Freud and it’s expected to sell for a shocking 100 million US dollars.  Bacon’s last painting sold, “Triptych” sold in 2008 for 86 million dollars. This one, Bacon’s 1969 “Three Studies of Lucien Freud” was one of Bacon’s most important pieces.

Auctioneer Francis Outred is sure that it will break the last record. As he said, “That was a later painting, from the late ’70’s and it wasn’t of a very iconic subject, like Lucien Freud, so for many reasons I think this is a much more commercial and better painting, so I would confidently hope that this would break the 86 million dollars that was achieved for that painting.”

Francis Outred, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Europe continued, “Each head is sliced in half and we see a movement of the head, a shift of the foot, a fidget of the hands, all created by the flick of the brush, so it is really a masterpiece by Bacon in terms of the way, the technique that he has used to portray his great friend.”

Interestingly, the three panels were actually separated for close to 15 years and were only reunited in the late 1980s. The auction for this work will take place on November 12.