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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 12, 2016 | Christie's | London | Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 25 | $****** - ****** | Two Figures |
paintings
198.1 x 70.5 cm (78 x 27.75 in)
oil on canvas
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1975.
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s, 2006-2007, cat. 39 (illustrated in colour, p. 114). This exhibition later travelled to Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery.<br>Rome, Galleria Borghese, Caravaggio Bacon, 2009-2010, p. 206 (illustrated in colour, p. 207; detail illustrated in colour, pp. 24 and 180 – 181).<br>Chichester, Pallant House Gallery (on extended loan, 2009-2015).<br>Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Francis Bacon to Paula Rego, 2012, pp. 65 and 37, pl. 17 (illustrated in colour, on the cover and p. 37).<br>Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Bacon/ Moore: Flesh and Bone, 2013-2014, p. 142, no. 61 (illustrated in colour, p. 143).<br>London, Christie’s Mayfair, Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth, 2015, pp. 51 and 209 (illustrated in colour, p. 59; detail illustrated in colour, pp. 50 and 58).<br>
M. Harrison, “Francis Bacon: Lost and Found”, in Apollo, March 2005 (illustrated in colour prior to completion, p. 95).<br>M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait, London 2008, p. 259 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).<br>A. Bond (ed.), Francis Bacon: Five Decades, exh. cat., Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2012-2013, fig. 112 (illustrated in colour prior to completion, p. 186).<br>M. Harrison, “Collection in Focus: Two Figures, 1975”, in Pallant House Gallery Magazine, no. 31, October 2013 - February 2014 (illustrated in colour, p. 60).<br>M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir, London 2015, pp. 266 and 270.<br>
