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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2023 | Christie's | New York | Masterpieces from the S.I. Newhouse Collection | 5A | $****** - ****** | Self-Portrait | |||
Feb 8, 2006 | Christie's | London | Post-War & Contemporary Art - Evening Sale | 5 | $****** - ****** | Self-Portrait |
paintings
35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in)
oil on canvas
signed, dedicated, titled and dated 'Self-Portrait 1969 Francis Bacon to V with all very best wishes Francis' (on the reverse)
Valerie Beston, London (gift from the artist, circa 1969);
Christie's, London, 8 February 2006, lot 5.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Francis Bacon , October 1971-May 1972, pp. 53 and 131, no. 90 (illustrated).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-1974 , March-June 1975, no. 4 (illustrated in color).
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Human Clay: An Exhibition Selected by R.B. Kitaj , August 1976, no. 9 (illustrated).
Madrid, Fundación Juan March and Barcelona, Fundaciò Joan Miro, Francis Bacon , April-July 1978, no. 1 (illustrated in color).
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982 , June-November 1983, pp. 52 and 85, no. 24 (illustrated in color).
Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Francis Bacon. Peintures récentes , January-February 1984, p. 33, no. 2 (illustrated in color).
London, Tate Gallery; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Francis Bacon , May 1985-March 1986, no. 66 (illustrated in color).
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Francis Bacon: Loan Exhibition in Celebration of His 80th Birthday , October-November 1989, p. 23, no. 8 (illustrated in color).
Manchester Art Gallery; London, Barbican Art Gallery and Glasgow, City Art Gallery, The Pursuit of the Real: British Figurative Painting, from Sickert to Bacon , May-September 1990, p. 90, no. 46 (illustrated in color).
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Francis Bacon 1909-1992: Small Portrait Studies , October-December 1993, no. 19 (illustrated in color).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Foundation Maeght, Bacon-Freud Expressions , July-October 1995, p. 71, no. 18 (illustrated in color and illustrated on the front cover).
J. Russell, Francis Bacon , London, 1971, p. 182, no. 89 (illustrated).
L. Trucchi, Francis Bacon , Milan, 1975, (illustrated in color, pl. 136).
M. Leiris, Francis Bacon, Full Face and in Profile , London, 1983, no. 68 (illustrated in color).
Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture , exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983, p. 242 (illustrated, pl. 1).
J. Burr, "Round the Galleries: Crisis Under the Skin," Apollo , June 1985, vol. CXXI, p. 431, no. 1 (illustrated).
M. Vaizey, "Bacon: Genius Who Walks Alone," The Sunday Times , 26 May 1985, p. 43 (illustrated).
H. Davies and S. Yard, Francis Bacon , New York, 1986, p. 6, no. 1 (illustrated in color and illustrated on the front cover).
D. Kuspit, "Hysterical Painting," Artforum , vol. 24, no. 5, January 1986, p. 55 (illustrated in color).
J. Burr, "Too Much Reality?," Apollo , vol. CXXXI, no. 335, January 1990, p. 59, no. 1 (illustrated).
P. Ackroyd, "Pictures from an Irish Exhibitionist," The Times , 2 September 1993, p. 39 (illustrated).
A. Riding, "The School of London, Mordantly Messy as Ever," The New York Times , 25 September 1995, p. C11 (illustrated).
W. Schmied, Francis Bacon Commitment and Conflict , Munich and New York, 1996, p. 100, no. 31 (illustrated in color).
F. Bores and M. Kundera, Francis Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits , London, 1996, p. 106 (illustrated in color).
Francis Bacon , exh. cat., Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 1996 (illustrated, pl. 70).
C. Darwent, "Valerie Forever," The Independent , 29 January 2006, p. 5 (illustrated).
H. Lane, "Valerie at the Gallery," Observer Magazine , 29 January 2006, p. 32 (illustrated).
J. Colapinto, "The Alchemist," The New Yorker , 20 March 2006, p. 96 and 100.
M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews , New Haven and London, 2008, pp. 216-217 (illustrated in color).
R. Cork, "Bacon and Edge," The Sunday Times Magazine , 7 September 2008, p. 1 (illustrated).
A. Wieland, Francis Bacon , New York, 2009, pp. 15 and 53 (illustrated in color).
J. Littell, Triptych: Three Studies after Francis Bacon , London, 2013, pp. 190-191 (illustrated in color).
M. Harrison and R. Daniels, eds., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné: Volume III 1958-71 , London, 2016, pp. 22, 920-921 and 1000, no. 69-13 (illustrated in color).
M. Harrison, ed., Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psycholog y, London, 2019, p. 120, no. 82 (illustrated in color).
FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)
Self-Portrait
signed, dedicated, titled and dated 'Self-Portrait 1969 Francis Bacon to V with all very best wishes Francis' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
14 x 12 in. (35.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1969
