Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art

Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Impeccable and fascinating paintings that create mystery and leave you haunted, like the covers of novels that are yet to be written.
• Tate Britain, London, until 26 February.

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