The Collection of Jean Yves Mock

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Lot 67
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Clive Barker, b.1940

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Description

  • Clive Barker
  • LIFE MASK OF FRANCIS BACON
  • bronze
  • 22x15cm.; 8¾x5¾in.
  • Executed in 1969, this work is a prototype for the edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs and is the only example of this work mounted in this way.

Provenance

Hanover Gallery, London
The Estate of Erica Brausen, London

Exhibited

London, Hanover Gallery, Clive Barker, 1969, no. 19, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue

Literature

An Jo Fermon (ed.), Clive Barker Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2000, Milan, 2002, p. 97, no. 85, illustrated

Catalogue Note

The polyester cast of Francis Bacon's face was taken in the artist's studio by a specialist in death masks.