The slice of genius brought to you by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Roald Dahl

Study for Head of Lucian Freud, painted by Bacon and owned by Dahl, is expected to fetch millions at Christie's this week. It's worth every penny

The really big financial killing at Christie's auction of Postwar and Contemporary Art in London this week will not be made by Tracey Emin's My Bed. Instead it will involve a famous children's author and two remarkable painters, as Francis Bacon's Study for Head of Lucian Freud (1967) also goes under the hammer.

A portrait of the brilliant Freud by his peer or superior? Francis Bacon is bound to attract some sensational bids. After all, Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud currently holds the world record as the most expensive painting ever sold at auction after it fetched $142m at Christie's in New York last year. Another Bacon triptych, of his lover George Dyer, sold at Sotheby's this week for £26.7m.

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