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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2022 | Sotheby's | London | British Art: The Jubilee Auction | 10 | $****** - ****** | Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud |
paintings
198 x 147.5 cm (77.95 x 58.07 in)
oil on canvas
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London
The Hon. Colin Tennant, London
Galleria Galatea, Turin
Private Collection, Europe
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982-83
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Francis Bacon: Gemälde 1945-65 , January - February 1965, n.p., no. 53 (text)
Stockholm, Moderna Museet , Francis Bacon: Målningar 1945-1964 , February - April 1965, n.p., no. 55, illustrated
Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945 - 65, April - May 1965, n.p., no. 50 (text)
Lorenza Trucchi, Francis Bacon, Milan, 1975, no. 94, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Bacon, 1996, p. 61, illustrated
David Sylvester, Looking Back at Francis Bacon, London, 2000, pp. 113-114 (text)
Martin Harrison, Ed., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné , Volume III, 1958-71 , London, 2016, p. 753, no. 64-06, illustrated in color
Sebastian Smee, “Freud & Bacon , ” Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, London, 2016, p. 85 (text)
David Dawson, Ed., Lucian Freud: A Life, London, 2019, p. 109, illustrated in colour
Property of a Distinguished European Collector
Francis Bacon
1909 - 1992
Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud
oil on canvas
198 by 147.5 cm. 78 by 58 in.
Executed in May 1964.
