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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 1, 2016 | Christie's | London | Defining British Art Evening Sale | 6 | $****** - ****** | Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe | |||
Nov 14, 2006 | Sotheby's | New York | The Vanthournout Collection | 5 | $****** - ****** | Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe |
paintings
198.1 x 147.3 cm (78 x 58 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Francis Bacon' (on the stretcher); titled and dated 'Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe 1968' (on the reverse)
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London.
Vanthournout Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in 1970).
Their sale, Sotheby’s New York, 14 November 2006, lot 5.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Knokke, Gemeetelijk Casino, XXXIIIe Belgian Summer Festival, Pop Art: Niewue Figuratie/Nouveau Réalism, 1970, p. 15.<br>New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings, 1968, p. 50, no. 15 (illustrated in colour, p. 51).<br>London, Hayward Gallery, Francis Bacon The Human Body, 1998, p. 101, no. 15 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Francis Bacon, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’art moderne, 1996, no. 57 (illustrated in colour).<br>D. Sylvester, Looking Back at Francis Bacon, London 2000, p. 110, no. 88 (illustrated in colour).<br>M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné Volume III 1958-71, London 2016, p. 878 (illustrated in colour, p. 879).
