Lying Figure No1 by Francis Bacon used to be on display at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
A "£20m" painting claimed to be the most valuable in Leicester's public should not be hidden in storage, a councillor said.
, but it is not currently on show.The council blamed limits on space and said it would eventually reappear."It's a very valuable, very important painting and I'm sure a lot of people would visit Leicester just to come and look at it. It must be the most valuable painting we have got in the museum. "Rather than having this £20m painting stuck in some basement, what harm would there be to put it on display and have it back where it was?"British artist Bacon died in 1992 and his works have been selling for huge sums, reports theIn 2013, his Three Studies of Lucien Freud sold for $142.4m in New York, while another piece of his called Seated Figure sold for $40m in 2014.
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