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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 23, 2020 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 121 | $****** - ****** | Study from the Human Body |
paintings
198.1 x 148 cm (78 x 58.25 in)
oil, pastel and aerosol paint on canvas
Collection of the Artist.
The Estate of the Artist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta IX, 1992.
Madrid, Galería Marlborough, Francis Bacon: Pinturas 1981-1991 / Paintings 1981-1991, 1992-1993, p. 44, no. 9 (illustrated in colour, p. 39). This exhibition later travelled to New York, Marlborough Gallery.
Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Francis Bacon, 1993, pp. 130 and 164, no. 62 (illustrated in colour, p. 133; illustrated, p. 164).
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Francis Bacon Important Paintings from the Estate, 1998-1999, p. 62 (illustrated in colour, p. 63, titled 'Study for Human Body').
London, Faggionato Fine Arts, Francis Bacon Paintings from The Estate 1980-1991, 1999, pp. 40 and 44 (illustrated in colour, p. 41).
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Picasso, Bacon, Basquiat, 2004, p. 36 (illustrated in colour, p. 37; installation view illustrated in colour, p. 2).
Venice, Central Pavilion Venice Biennale LI, The Experience of Art, 2005.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Naked Portrait, 2007, pp. 18 and 139, pl. 14 (illustrated in colour, p. 19). This exhibition later travelled to Compton Verney, Compton Verney Art Gallery.
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, XX Century Exhibition, 2008-2009.
Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, Francis Bacon: France and Monaco, 2016, no. 61 (illustrated in colour, pp. 150 and 232).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Bacon en Toutes Lettres, 2019-2020, pp. 145 and 239 (illustrated in colour, p. 144).
J. Clair, ‘Francis Bacon: Last Thoughts and Last Work’, in The Art Newspaper, vol. 19, no. 3, June 1992 (illustrated, p. 9).
J. Russell, Francis Bacon, London 1993, p. 203, no. 112 (illustrated in colour, p. 192).
P. Sollers, Les passions de Francis Bacon, Paris 1996, p. 177 (illustrated in colour, p. 173).
M. Kundera and F. Borel, Bacon Portraits and Self-Portraits, London 1996, p. 18.
Francis Bacon: Paintings in the 1950s, exh. cat., Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2006, p. 174.
M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon Anatomy of an Enigma, London 2008, p. 391.
F. Marini, Francis Bacon, London 2008, p. 87.
M. Harrison (ed.), Francis Bacon – New Studies: Centenary Essays, Gottingen 2009, p. 191, no. 128 (illustrated in colour, p. 189, titled 'Study for Human Body').
K. Günther, Francis Bacon: Metamorphoses, Dorchester 2011, p. 33 (illustrated in colour, p. 32).
M. Harrison (ed.), Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné. Volume IV, 1971-1992, London 2016, p. 1390, no. 91-03 (illustrated in colour, p. 1391, titled 'Study for Human Body').
