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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 26 | $****** - ****** | STUDY FOR PORTRAIT | |||
May 15, 2013 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Evening Sale | 46 | $****** - ****** | STUDY FOR PORTRAIT |
paintings
198.1 x 148 cm (77.99 x 58.27 in)
oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas
signed, titled, and dated 1981 on the reverse
Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in February 1983
New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc., Important Paintings by Avigdor Arikha, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Fernando Botero, Claudio Bravo, Lucien [sic] Freud, Alberto Giacometti, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Antonio Lopez-Garcia, Pablo Picasso, November 1982, p. 9, no. 6, illustrated in color
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art; and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982, June - November 1983, p. 76, no. 43, illustrated in color and p. 89, no. 43, illustrated
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The British Imagination: Twentieth-Century Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, November 1990 - January 1991, p. 99, no. 48, illustrated in color
Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, New York, 1983, p. 228, no. 135, illustrated in color
Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, Barcelona, 1987, p. 228, no. 135, illustrated in color
Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, New York, 1988, p. 110, no. 134, illustrated in color
Martin Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971-92, London, 2016, pp. 1232-1233, no. 81-07, illustrated in color
signed, titled, and dated 1981 on the reverse
oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas
78 by 58 1/4 in. 198.1 by 148 cm.
