Francis Bacon Head, Epstein Friend Foot

a photo from the epstein files of a raised right leg in black tights, a wool sock, and a black velcro ankle brace/boot in a professionally decorated living room where a 1949 francis bacon painting of a disembodied head in a field of black hangs over a slim limestone fireplace, and is flanked by modern bronze statues on parchment covered credenzas. the black and white velour covered sofas and deep chocolate pillows with the decorator chop flank a giacometti-esque glass top bronze coffee table on which sit a diptyque fig candle, and several short stacks of museum exhibition catalogues. half the ones not blocked by the foot are from moma shows, or published by moma, between 2014 and 2018. if this were leon black's foot or a relative's foot, perhaps they would have rotated the moma catalogues a bit, or might have even had a phaidon book out. unless that's somehow tackier than sending feet pics to your child rapist sex trafficker blackmailer uncredentialed art and tax adviser
One Walking Man, one not: the complete absence of metadata for the Epstein files photodump is ridiculous, but this is one of the few search results for Gerhard Richter,

There’s a mention of a sprained foot in a boot in the Epstein files, but it’s from early 2013, a young woman of no fortune just moving to NYC from Miami and seeking a job, for which she had been creepily recruited. So she was not the seller in late 2013 of Francis Bacon’s Head III (1949) in London for 10.4 million pounds, and this is not her photo.

No, the exhibition catalogues on the coffee table are from 2014 (Polke Alibis, MoMA; Richter Pictures Series, Beyeler) and 2016 (Picasso Sculpture, MoMA). So this is the buyer of the Bacon, not the seller.

Yet none of these works—not the Bacon, nor the Fontana, nor the Giacometti—appear in the 48-page spreadsheet Epstein and Leon Black’s family office prepared, inventorying Black’s art collection for appraisal and collateralization. [And neither, for that matter, does the coffee table, though many furniture pieces actually by Giacometti do.]

But that document was dated 2017. And the Oasis in the City history of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden on the coffee table is from 2018. So either that is only a partial accounting of Black’s art purchases, or this is not the Blacks, and the Bacon was bought by someone else who not only gets courtesy catalogues from MoMA, but leaves them on display. And who was sending feet pics to Epstein while the disclosures of his Trumpian sweetheart plea deal were boiling, and just months before he was arrested again for sex trafficking minors.