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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Francis Bacon

Self-Portrait

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000,000 - 12,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Francis Bacon

1909 - 1992


Self-Portrait

signed, titled and dated 1972 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

36 by 30.5 cm. 14⅛ by 12 in.

Executed in 1972. 

Please note that this lot was printed in the catalogue as lot 17 and is now lot 18.

Dr. Paul Brass, London (a gift from the artist circa 1983)

Sotheby’s, London, 30 November 1994, lot 32 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-1974, March - June 1975, no. 24, p. 50, illustrated in colour

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art; and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982, June - November 1983, no. 29, p. 53, illustrated in colour and p. 86, illustrated

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon: Paintings, May - July 1985, no. 11, p. 27, illustrated in colour (titled Study for Self-Portrait)

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon 1909-1992: Small Portrait Studies, October - December 1993, no. 24, p. 86, illustrated in colour

London, Eykyn Maclean, Interviews with Artists, June - July 2012

London, National Portrait Gallery and Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Francis Bacon: Human Presence, October 2024 - June 2025, no. 23, p. 85, illustrated in colour and p. 100

Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Full Face and in Profile, Oxford 1983, no. 80, p. 140, illustrated in colour

Andrew Graham-Dixon, "Francis Bacon, Painter Driven by Mortality," The Independent, 29 April 1992, p. 1, illustrated (detail)

France Borel and Milan Kundera, Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits, London 1996, p. 89, illustrated in colour

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971–92, London 2016, no. 72-12, p. 1014 and pp. 1022-23, illustrated in colour

Martin Harrison and Sophie Pretorius, eds., Revisions: Francis Bacon in the Act of Painting, London 2024, no. 72-12, p. 51, illustrated in colour