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Auction archive: Lot number 92

Francis Bacon

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,025 - US$6,708
Price realised:
£6,250
ca. US$8,386
Auction archive: Lot number 92

Francis Bacon

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,025 - US$6,708
Price realised:
£6,250
ca. US$8,386
Beschreibung:

Francis Bacon Follow Triptych (after the centre panel of In Memory of George Dyer, 1971) 1976 Offset lithograph in colours, on Arches paper, with full margins. I. 49 x 36.5 cm (19 1/4 x 14 3/8 in.) S. 65 x 49.8 cm (25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.) Signed in felt-tip pen (faded), re-signed by the artist in pencil in 1992 and stamp-numbered '0026' on the reverse (the edition was 100), published by the Musée Cantini, Marseilles, framed.
Literature Bruno Sabatier 33 Alexandre Tacou 6 Artist Bio Francis Bacon Irish-British • 1909 - 1992 Follow Francis Bacon was a larger-than-life figure during his lifetime and remains one now more than ever. Famous for keeping a messy studio, and even more so for his controversial, celebrated depictions of papal subjects and bullfights, often told in triptychs, Bacon signified the blinding dawn of the Modern era. His signature blurred portraits weren't murky enough to stave off his reputation as highly contentious—his paintings were provocations against social order in the people's eye. But, Bacon often said, "You can't be more horrific than life itself." In conversation with yet challenging the conventions of Modern art, Bacon was known for his triptychs brutalizing formalist truths, particularly Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion , which Bacon debuted in London in 1944, and Three Studies of Lucian Freud , which became famous when it set the record for most expensive work of art at auction at the time it sold in 2013. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 92
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jun 2018
Auction house:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

Francis Bacon Follow Triptych (after the centre panel of In Memory of George Dyer, 1971) 1976 Offset lithograph in colours, on Arches paper, with full margins. I. 49 x 36.5 cm (19 1/4 x 14 3/8 in.) S. 65 x 49.8 cm (25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.) Signed in felt-tip pen (faded), re-signed by the artist in pencil in 1992 and stamp-numbered '0026' on the reverse (the edition was 100), published by the Musée Cantini, Marseilles, framed.
Literature Bruno Sabatier 33 Alexandre Tacou 6 Artist Bio Francis Bacon Irish-British • 1909 - 1992 Follow Francis Bacon was a larger-than-life figure during his lifetime and remains one now more than ever. Famous for keeping a messy studio, and even more so for his controversial, celebrated depictions of papal subjects and bullfights, often told in triptychs, Bacon signified the blinding dawn of the Modern era. His signature blurred portraits weren't murky enough to stave off his reputation as highly contentious—his paintings were provocations against social order in the people's eye. But, Bacon often said, "You can't be more horrific than life itself." In conversation with yet challenging the conventions of Modern art, Bacon was known for his triptychs brutalizing formalist truths, particularly Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion , which Bacon debuted in London in 1944, and Three Studies of Lucian Freud , which became famous when it set the record for most expensive work of art at auction at the time it sold in 2013. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 92
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jun 2018
Auction house:
Phillips
London
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