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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2024 | Christie's | London | 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale | 25 | $****** - ****** | Painting March 1985 | |||
Jun 4, 2013 | Christie's | Paris | Art Contemporain | 9 | $****** - ****** | Painting March 1985 |
paintings
198.1 x 148 cm (78 x 58.25 in)
oil and aerosol paint on canvas
signed, titled and dated ‘Painting March 1985 Francis Bacon" (on the reverse)
Jacques Dupin Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1987).
His sale, Christie"s Paris, 4 June 2013, lot 9.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc., Francis Bacon: Paintings of the Eighties, 1987, p. 44, no. 7 (illustrated in colour, p. 29).
Paris, Galerie Lelong, Francis Bacon peintures récentes , 1987, p. 7 (illustrated in colour, p. 5).
Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Modern Masters "89 , 1989, pp. 75 and 166, no. 5 (illustrated in colour, p. 74)
New York, Cheim & Read, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt , 1998-1999.
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon: Late Paintings , 2015, pp. 29, 98, 101 and 142 (illustrated in colour, pp. 99 and 204).
Monte Carlo, Le Grimaldi Forum, Francis Bacon: La France et Monaco , 2016, no. 67 (illustrated in colour, pp. 172 and 232).
Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Francis Bacon: de Picasso a Velázquez, 2016-2017, p. 204, no. 72 (illustrated in colour, p. 173).
Paris, Centre national d"art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Francis Bacon. En toutes lettres , 2019-2020, pp. 128 and 239 (illustrated in colour, p. 129). This exhibition later travelled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts.
H. Davies and S. Yard, Francis Bacon , New York 1986, no. 101 (illustrated, p. 106).
Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s , exh. cat., Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, 1987 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
M. Leiris, Francis Bacon , Barcelona 1987, p. 128, no. 147 (illustrated in colour, p. 118).
Francis Bacon , exh. cat., Paris, Centre national d"art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 1996 (installation view at Galerie Lelong in 1987 illustrated, p. 310).
C. Domino, Francis Bacon: ‘Taking Reality by Surprise" , London 1997 (installation view at Galerie Lelong in 1987 illustrated, p. 36).
M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné: Volume IV 1971-92 , London 2016, p. 1306, no. 85-04 (illustrated in colour, p. 1307).
Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms , exh. cat., Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, 2016 (photograph of the work in artist"s studio illustrated in colour, p. 226).
FRANCIS BACON (1909 -1992)
Painting March 1985
signed, titled and dated ‘Painting March 1985 Francis Bacon" (on the reverse)
oil and aerosol paint on canvas
78 x 58 ¼in. (198.2 x 148cm.)
Executed in 1985
