Chelsea owner buys Lucien Freud painting
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich bought two paintings that were sold at record-breaking auctions last week, according to reports. Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping sold for £17.2m on Tuesday, followed by Francis Bacon’s Triptych, which fetched £43m just 24 hours later. The Art Newspaper quoted sources saying the London-based Russian billionaire was the buyer of both paintings. A spokesman for Mr Abramovich declined to comment. He said: “We don’t get into personal matters.” The life-sized Freud painting of a…