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LONDON, June 2 (UPI) -- A Francis Bacon portrait thought never to have gone on public display has been sent from Iran to Britain.
The painting has been stored in the vaults of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran for 25 years. It is now being rushed to Britain to appear in a new exhibition of the artist's works, the Independent reported Thursday.
It is still uncertain whether the painting will arrive in time for this weekend's opening of Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.
"Reclining Man with Sculpture" (1960-61) was sold to the wife of the late Shah of Iran in the 1970s by the British collector, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. The shah's wife founded her own gallery but after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 fundamentalists took control of her collection and many of the Western paintings ended up in storage.
The portrait was spotted in the museum's vaults by Andrea Rose of the British Council when she was visiting Iran two years ago.
The portrait is thought to be of Peter Lacy, a former RAF pilot who was Bacon's lover.
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