Bacon rugs: The Third Man emerges

The appearance of a Modernist carpet at a sale in Germany next month writes a further chapter in the tale of two rugs, signed ‘Francis Bacon’, that have been withdrawn from sale in the UK twice in three years.

Although unsigned, the carpet in Germany - rug specialists have termed it 'The Third Man' - is the s…

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