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Bacon/Rodin: Property from an Important Private Collection

Francis Bacon

Study for Self-Portrait

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Auction Closed

October 16, 07:07 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Francis Bacon

1909 - 1992


Study for Self-Portrait

signed, titled and dated 1980 (on the reverse) 

oil on canvas

35.5 by 30.5 cm. 14 by 12 in. 

Executed in 1980. 

Acquired directly from the artist in 1980 by the present owner 

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Francis Bacon: Five Decades, November 2012 – February 2013, p. 207, illustrated in colour (titled Self-Portrait)

Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Francis Bacon: Monaco and French Culture, July – September 2016, no. 72, pp. 186 and 233, illustrated in colour

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2012 – 2025 (extended loan) 

Eddy Batache, “Francis Bacon and the last convulsions of Humanism,” Art and Australia, vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 1985, p. 222, illustrated

Martin Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971-92, London 2016, no. 80-05, p. 1203, illustrated in colour