LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas, in 3 parts

Size Notes:

each

Markings:

titled and dated '3 studies for portrait Lucian Freud 1969' (on the reverse of the center panel)

Exhibited:

Turin, Galleria Galatea, Francis Bacon, March-April 1970, p. 11 (illustrated in color). Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, Francis Bacon, October 1971-May 1972, pp. 42-44 and 53, no. 83 (illustrated in color). London, Tate Gallery; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Francis Bacon, May 1985-March 1986, n.p., no. 59 (right panel exhibited; illustrated in color). New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Francis Bacon. A Retrospective, January-October 1999, pp. 143, 154-156, no. 46 (illustrated in color). Rome, Galleria Borghese, Caravaggio Bacon, October 2009-January 2010, pp. 198-199 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

J. Russell, Francis Bacon, London, 1971, pp. 144-145 and 201, no. 72 (illustrated). L. Trucchi, Francis Bacon, London, 1976, n.p., no. 129 (illustrated in color). M. Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, New York, 1983, n.p., no. 62 (illustrated in color). H. Davies and S. Yard, Francis Bacon, New York, 1986, p. 49, no. 54 (illustrated). E. van Alphen, Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self, London, 1992, pp. 36-38 and 44, no. 8-10, 16-18 (illustrated in color). J. Farena, Great Modern Masters: Bacon, New York, 1995, pp. 22-23 and 62, no. 17 (illustrated in color). W. Schmied, Francis Bacon. Commitment and Conflict, Munich, 1996, p. 90, fig. 98 (central panel illustrated in color and on the cover). M. Cappock, Francis Bacon's Studio, London, 2005, p. 43, no. 48 (central panel illustrated in color). Francis Bacon, exh. cat., London, Tate Britain, 2008, p. 183, fig. 107 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Left panel:. Galleria Galatea, Turin. Private collection, Paris. Private collection, Japan. Galerie H.Odermatt - Ph.Cazeau, Paris. Private collection, Rome. Center panel:. Galleria Galatea, Turin. Private collection, Paris. Galerie H.Odermatt - Ph.Cazeau, Paris. Private collection, Rome. Right panel:. Galleria Galatea, Turin. Private collection, Rome. Private collection, Rome.