The 20th century saw greater improvements and more ... In the 1960s there was a huge slum clearance effort. The slums were often replaced with tower blocks. Some people were moved into new towns ...

Christie’s offers Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Man with Glasses III (1963; estimate: £6,000,000-9,000,000) as a major highlight of its 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025.