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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 9 | $****** - ****** | STUDY FOR A HEAD |
paintings
66 x 56 cm (25.98 x 22.05 in)
oil and sand on canvas
inscribed with artist's symbol
Beaux Arts Gallery, London
Bernard H. Friedman, New York
Sanford Friedman, New York (gift from the above)
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1975
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, The Richard and Jane Lang Collection, February - April 1984, pp. 12-13, no. 1, illustrated
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum; and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings in the 1950s, September 2006 - July 2007, p. 102, no. 28, illustrated in color
Ronald Alley, Francis Bacon, London, 1964, n.p., no. 43, illustrated and p. 61 (text)
Chiyo Ishikawa, ed., A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 2008, p. 40, illustrated in color
Martin Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, 1929-57, London, 2016, pp. 266-267, no. 52-07, illustrated in color
inscribed with artist's symbol
oil and sand on canvas
26 by 22 in. 66 by 56 cm.
Executed in 1952.
