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Artist |
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Francis Bacon |
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Title |
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Triptych (in 3 parts)
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Medium |
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oil and pastel on canvas |
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Size |
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78 x 58.1 in. / 198 x 147.5 cm. |
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Year |
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1976 - |
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Description |
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signed, titled and dated 1976 on the reverse of the right panel;... |
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Misc. |
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Signed, Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's New York: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
[Lot 33]
Contemporary Part I
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Sold For |
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Provenance |
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Marlborough Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1977
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Exhibition |
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Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Francis Bacon: Recent Works, January - March 1977, illustrated in color on the front and back cover
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta 6, June - October 1977, vol. I, p.50, illustrated and p. 51, illustrated in color (detail, center panel)
Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani, Francis Bacon, April - July 1978, cat. no. 11, p. 26, illustrated in color (Madrid) and pp. 42-44, illustrated in color (Barcelona)
London, Tate Gallery; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie; Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Francis Bacon, May 1985 - April 1986, cat. no. 98, illustrated in color (London only)
Moscow, New Tretyakov Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings, September - November 1988, cat. no. 27
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Polyptyques: le tableau multiple du Moyen-Age au vingtième siècle, March - July 1990, cat. no. 63, pp. 260-61, illustrated in color
Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Francis Bacon, March - May 1993, cat. no. 47, p. 100, illustrated in color and p. 156, illustrated
Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Bacon - Freud Expressions, July - October 1995, cat. no. 22, p. 75, illustrated in color
Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Francis Bacon, June 1996 - January 1997, cat. no. 71, p. 198, illustrated in color and p. 307, illustrated (installation at Galerie Claude Bernard with the artist, 1977)
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Francis Bacon, January - April 1998, cat. no. 30, illustrated in color
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Francis Bacon: a Retrospective, January - October 1999, pl. 57, pp. 184-186, illustrated in color
London, Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon: Triptychs, June - August 2006, n.p., illustrated in color
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Literature |
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David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon, New York, 1981, pl. 127, p. 166, illustrated
Michel Leiris, Full Face and in Profile, Oxford, 1983, pl. 109, illustrated in color
Robert Melville, "Projections of Instransigence," New York Times Literary Supplement, June 7, 1985, p. 638, illustrated
John Russell, Francis Bacon, New York, 1985, no. 104, pp. 176 -177, illustrated in color
Hugh Davies and Sally Yard, Francis Bacon, New York, 1986, pl. 89, pp. 92-93, illustrated in color
Michel Leiris, Full Face and in Profile, New York, 1988, pl. 104, illustrated in color
Rolf Læssoe, "Francis Bacon's Crucifixion and Other Related Themes," Hafnia, Copenhagen Papers in the History of Art, 1989, cat. no. 11, fig. 12, p. 32, illustrated (detail, center panel)
Gilles Deleuze, "Interpretations of the Body, A New Power of Laughter for the Living," Art International, Autumn 1989, pp. 34-35, illustrated in color
Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, London, 1989, illustrated
John Russell, Francis Bacon (revised and updated edition), London, 1993, pl. no. 91, pp. 166 - 167, illustrated in color
Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation Vol. II, Paris, 1994, pl. no. 27, illustrated in color
Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict, Munich, 1996, fig. 122, p. 104, illustrated (detail, center panel)
Christopher Domino, Francis Bacon: Painter of a Dark Vision, Paris, 1996, pp. 66-67, illustrated in color
David Sylvester, Looking Back at Francis Bacon, New York, 2000, p. 156, illustrated and p. 157, illustrated (center panel)
Luigi Ficacci, Francis Bacon 1909-1992, Cologne, 2003, p. 69, illustrated in color
Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, Minneapolis, 2004, no. 79, p. 172
Martin Harrison, In Camera: Francis Bacon, Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting, New York, 2005, pl. 226, p. 203, illustrated in color (center panel only)
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