Post War and Contemporary Irish Art

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Lot 93
  • 93

John Minihan b.1946

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • John Minihan
  • Francis Bacon photographed at Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris
  • signed, titled, dated January 1977 and inscribed The Triptych 1976 was a big feature of the show; also signed, dated 1977 and inscribed Francis Bacon, Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris / Triptych 1976 behind the Artist on the reverse
  • silver gelatin print
  • plate: 30 by 44cm.; 11¾ by 17¼in.

Exhibited

London, The October Gallery, Photographs of Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs by John Minihan, February - March 1990, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p.10 (another print).

Catalogue Note

‘I first met Francis Bacon outside the Marlborough Magistrate's court in 1971…Over the next 20 years I photographed Bacon in London, and at his invitation, in Paris for his show at the Claude Bernard Gallery, in 1977. Bacon was courteous to those who knew him, and respected photography, which is the salient influence in much of his work’. (John Minihan in the Introduction, exh.cat., op.cit., p.4)