Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Francis Bacon

Study for Portrait

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Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Francis Bacon

1909 - 1992


Study for Portrait

signed, titled and dated 1976 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

35.6 by 30.5 cm. 14 by 12 in.

Executed in 1976.

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1977)

Sotheby's, London, 12 February 2013, lot 16 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Francis Bacon: œuvres récentes, 1977, n.p. (checklist) 

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Francis Bacon: Late Paintings, 2020, n.p. (checklist) (dated 1974)

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan 2020-26)

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971-92, London 2016, no. 76-15, pp. 1118-19, illustrated in colour