Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Auction Closed

October 12, 06:59 PM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 4,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector

Francis Bacon

1909 - 1992


Study for a Portrait

signed, titled and dated 1979 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

36.2 by 30.5 cm.

14¼ by 12 in.

Executed in 1979.

Marlborough Gallery, New York

Private Collection, U.S.A.

Christie’s, New York, 20 November 1996, lot 22 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Christie’s, London, 5 February 2003, lot 3 (consigned by the above)

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Private Collection, U.S.A. (acquired from the above in 2006)

Sotheby’s, New York, 9 November 2011, lot 43 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above) 

Private Collection, Monaco

Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 6 October 2020, lot 1128 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Martin Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon: Catalogue RaisonnéVolume IV, 1971-92, vol. IV, London 2016, no. 79-08, p. 1187, illustrated in colour
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Small Portrait Studies: Loan Exhibition, October – December 1993, no. 3, p. 11, illustrated in colour

London, Olympia Exhibition Halls, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, February – March 1996, n.p., illustrated in colour

London, Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon: Triptychs, June – August 2006, p. 25, illustrated in colour

Montpellier, Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole and Paris, Centre Pompidou, Francis Bacon/Bruce Nauman. Face to Face, July – November 2017, no. 42, p. 164, illustrated in colour 

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