Sentences with phrase «infamously licentious»

A British painter whose harrowing, anguished paintings and infamously licentious personal life have provided endless fodder for movie - makers, scholars, and artists alike, Francis Bacon has achieved the stature of a contemporary - art legend — all the more so now that his triptych portrait of his friend Lucian Freud made headlines when it sold for $ 142.4 million at Christie's, making it the priciest artwork to ever go under the hammer.