Private Sale
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.
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Details
signed, titled and dated 1979 (on the reverse)
36.2 by 30.5 cm. 14¼ by 12 in.
Provenance
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)
Private Collection, Taiwan
Sotheby's, London, 12 October 2023, lot 111 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Exhibition
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 1909- 1992 and Henry Moore 1898-1986, February - March 1996, n.p., illustrated in colour
London, Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon: Triptychs, June - August 2006, pp. 24-25, 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, pp. 164-165 and p. 246, illustrated in colour
Literature
Martin Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971-92, vol. IV, London 2016, no. 79 - 08, pp. 1186 - 1187, illustrated in colour