Moscow, Russia – 4, 2019: A visitor looks at Triptych-August 1972 by artist Francis Bacon at an exhibition “Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the School of London” at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is presented in cooperation with the Tate. Anton Novoderezhkin/Alamy Live News

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