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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 23, 2021 | Christie's | London | 20th Century Evening Sale | 22 | $****** - ****** | Sand Dune |
paintings
198.1 x 147.6 cm (78 x 58.13 in)
oil, pastel, dust and dry transfer lettering on canvas
Marlborough International Fine Art, Vaduz.
Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1983.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe, 1983, no. 32 (illustrated, p. 45).
London, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon, 1985-1986, p. 238, no. 111 (illustrated in colour, p. 210).
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Francis Bacon, 1989-1990. This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art.
Venice, Museo Correr, Francis Bacon: Figurabile, 1993, pp. 78 and 128, no. 27 (illustrated in colour, p. 80).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Bacon-Freud: Expressions, 1995, pp. 96 and 205, no. 26 (illustrated in colour, p. 97).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Francis Bacon, 1996-1997, p. 204, no. 75 (illustrated in colour, p. 205).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Bacon. En toutes lettres, 2019-2020, pp. 96 and 238 (illustrated in colour, p. 97). This exhibition later travelled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts.
M. Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, Oxford 1983, p. 270, no. 136 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
H. Davies and S. Yard, Francis Bacon, New York 1986, no. 94 (illustrated in colour, p. 97).
M. Leiris, Francis Bacon, Barcelona 1987, p. 128, no. 133 (illustrated in colour, p. 110)
E. van Alphen, Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self, London 1992, p. 207, no. 75 (illustrated in colour, p. 132).
A. Sinclair, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times, New York 1993, p. 278.
C. Domino, Francis Bacon: 'Taking Reality by Surprise', London 1997, p. 74.
Francis Bacon in Dublin, exh. cat., Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 2000, p. 15.
D. Sylvester, Looking Back at Francis Bacon, London 2000, p. 168, no. 134 (illustrated in colour, p. 178).
V. Todoli (ed.), Francis Bacon: Caged, Uncaged, exh. cat., Porto, Fundação de Serralves, 2003, p. 245.
L. Trucchi, Francis Bacon, Rome 2005, pp. 56 and 63, no. 14 (illustrated in colour, p. 60).
G. Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, London 2005, pp. xiii, 23 and 122, no. 86.
A. M. Wieland, Francis Bacon, Munich 2009, p. 124 (illustrated in colour, p. 29).
Francis Bacon: Late Paintings, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2015, p. 73 (illustrated in colour, p. 72, installation view with the artist illustrated, p. 91).
M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné Volume I, London 2016, p. 19.
M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné Volume IV 1971–92, London 2016, p. 1226, no. 81–04 (illustrated in colour, p. 1227).
