LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

35.6 x 30.5

Description:

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Markings:

signed for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction, dated and titled 'Study for Self-Portrait 1979 Francis Bacon' (on the reverse of each canvas)

Exhibited:

Palma de Mallorca, Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Marlborough in Pelaires, August-October 1990 (illustrated in color, p. 37).Seattle, Pivot Art + Culture, The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor 1955-2015, December 2015-February 2016, pp. 11 and 23. Seattle, Pivot Art + Culture, A Closer Look: Portraits from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, December 2016-March 2017.

Literature:

R. Daniels and M. Harrison, eds., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonn, 1971-1992, London, 2016, vol. IV, pp. 1174-1175 (illustrated in color, p. 1174, no. 79-02).

Provenance:

Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London.Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above, 1979, then by descent).Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 8 December 1999, lot 72.Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.