Lot 63
  • 63

Francis Bacon

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • recent paintings the metropolitan museum of art
  • Sheet circa: 1580 by 1090mm; 62 1/4 by 42 7/8 in
Lithograph printed in colours, 1975, after the painting of the same year, signed in felt-tip pen, numbered 109/170, with lettering, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with their blindstamp, on wove paper, with full (?) margins, in apparently good condition apart from some minor handling creases in the margins (unexamined out of frame)  test

Condition

In good condition as catalogued. Not examined out of frame. There are occasional handling creases in the margins, the longest in left margin approx. 8cm, there are occasional short areas of skinning in lower margin.
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