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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 3, 2019 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 23 | $****** - ****** | FIGURE WITH MONKEY | |||
Feb 15, 2012 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 42 | $****** - ****** | Figure With Monkey |
paintings
66 x 56 cm (25.98 x 22.05 in)
oil on canvas
Hanover Gallery, London
F.J. Anscombe, Cambridge
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London
Private Collection, Belgium
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in the 1980s)
Sotheby’s, London, 15 February 2012, Lot 42 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
London, Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon, December 1951 - February 1952
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Francis Bacon, January - February 1955, n.p., no. 4 (text)
Bregenz, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, July - October 1977, p. 54, no. 18 (text)(incorrectly titled)
London, Waddington and Tooth Galleiries, Groups, April 1978, n.p., illustrated
London, Michael Parkin Fine Art Ltd, Artists of the Colony Room Club: A Tribute to Muriel Belcher, November - December 1982, n.p., no. 8 (text)
Porto, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Francis Bacon: Caged Uncaged, January - April 2003, p. 119, illustrated in colour
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia; Milwaukee, Art Museum; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s, September 2006 - July 2007, no. 10, illustrated in colour
Ronald Alley, Francis Bacon, London 1964, p. 48, no. 30, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Bacon, June - October 1996, p. 244, illustrated
Martin Harrison, Ed., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II. 1929-57, London 2016, p. 233, no. 51-01, illustrated in colour
oil on canvas
66 by 56 cm. 26 by 22 in.
Executed in 1951.
