LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and pastel on canvas in three parts

Size Notes:

each

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 1976 on the reverse of the right panel; titled and dated 1976 on the reverse of the center panel

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Francis Bacon: Recent Works, January - March 1977, illustrated in color on the front and back cover. Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta 6, June - October 1977, vol. I, p.50, illustrated and p. 51, illustrated in color (detail, center panel). Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani, Francis Bacon, April - July 1978, cat. no. 11, p. 26, illustrated in color (Madrid) and pp. 42-44, illustrated in color (Barcelona). London, Tate Gallery; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie; Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Francis Bacon, May 1985 - April 1986, cat. no. 98, illustrated in color (London only). Moscow, New Tretyakov Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings, September - November 1988, cat. no. 27. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Polyptyques: le tableau multiple du Moyen-Âge au vingtième siècle, March - July 1990, cat. no. 63, pp. 260-61, illustrated in color. Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Francis Bacon, March - May 1993, cat. no. 47, p. 100, illustrated in color and p. 156, illustrated. Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Bacon - Freud Expressions, July - October 1995, cat. no. 22, p. 75, illustrated in color. Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Francis Bacon, June 1996 - January 1997, cat. no. 71, p. 198, illustrated in color and p. 307, illustrated (installation at Galerie Claude Bernard with the artist, 1977). Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Francis Bacon, January - April 1998, cat. no. 30, illustrated in color. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Francis Bacon: a Retrospective, January - October 1999, pl. 57, pp. 184-186, illustrated in color. London, Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon: Triptychs, June - August 2006, n.p., illustrated in color

Literature:

David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon, New York, 1981, pl. 127, p. 166, illustrated. Michel Leiris, Full Face and in Profile, Oxford, 1983, pl. 109, illustrated in color. Robert Melville, "Projections of Instransigence," New York Times Literary Supplement, June 7, 1985, p. 638, illustrated. John Russell, Francis Bacon, New York, 1985, no. 104, pp. 176 -177, illustrated in color. Hugh Davies and Sally Yard, Francis Bacon, New York, 1986, pl. 89, pp. 92-93, illustrated in color. Michel Leiris, Full Face and in Profile, New York, 1988, pl. 104, illustrated in color. Rolf Læssøe, "Francis Bacon's Crucifixion and Other Related Themes," Hafnia, Copenhagen Papers in the History of Art, 1989, cat. no. 11, fig. 12, p. 32, illustrated (detail, center panel). Gilles Deleuze, "Interpretations of the Body, A New Power of Laughter for the Living," Art International, Autumn 1989, pp. 34-35, illustrated in color. Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, London, 1989, illustrated. John Russell, Francis Bacon (revised and updated edition), London, 1993, pl. no. 91, pp. 166 - 167, illustrated in color. Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation Vol. II, Paris, 1994, pl. no. 27, illustrated in color. Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict, Munich, 1996, fig. 122, p. 104, illustrated (detail, center panel). Christopher Domino, Francis Bacon: Painter of a Dark Vision, Paris, 1996, pp. 66-67, illustrated in color. David Sylvester, Looking Back at Francis Bacon, New York, 2000, p. 156, illustrated and p. 157, illustrated (center panel). Luigi Ficacci, Francis Bacon 1909-1992, Cologne, 2003, p. 69, illustrated in color. Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Minneapolis, 2004, no. 79, p. 172. Martin Harrison, In Camera: Francis Bacon, Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting, New York, 2005, pl. 226, p. 203, illustrated in color (center panel only)

Provenance:

Marlborough Gallery, London. Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1977