Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were once inseparable. In the mid–1940s, they drank and gambled together at Soho’s Gargoyle Club, visited each other’s studios, and socialized with the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. According to Freud’s second wife, Caroline Blackwood, “I saw Bacon for dinner nearly every night for more or less the whole of my marriage to Lucian. We also had lunch.” This exhibition explores the act of one artist seeing another, a gaze caught in paintings, prints, drawings, photography, sculpture, and installations. Featuring works by 80 artists, dating from the Bloomsbury Group to the present day, the show traces friendships, rivalries, and artistic kinships across 125 years of British art. —Elena Clavarino