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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2018 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 25 | $****** - ****** | Three Studies for a Portrait |
paintings
35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in)
oil on canvas, in three parts
i) signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'Study for Portrait Left panel from front Francis Bacon 1976.' (on the reverse); ii) signed, inscribed and dated 'Study for a portrait Center Panel Francis Bacon 1976.' (on the reverse); iii) signed, inscribed and dated 'Study for Portrait right panel from Front Francis Bacon 1976.' (on the reverse)
Marlborough International Fine Art, Vaduz.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1977).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Francis Bacon: oeuvres récentes, 1977, no. 16 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné: Volume IV 1971-92, London 2016, p. 1114, no. 76-13 (illustrated in colour, pp. 1114-1115).
i) signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'Study for Portrait Left panel from front Francis Bacon 1976.' (on the reverse)
ii) signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'Study for a portrait Center Panel Francis Bacon 1976.' (on the reverse)
iii) signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'Study for Portrait right panel from Front Francis Bacon 1976.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas, in three parts
each: 14 x 12in. (35.5 x 30.5cm.)
Painted in 1976
