LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and sand on canvas

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 22.05 in. (56.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed with artist's symbol

Exhibited:

Seattle, Seattle Art Museum,. The Richard and Jane Lang Collection , February - April 1984, pp. 12-13, no. 1, illustrated. Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum; and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery,. Francis Bacon: Paintings in the 1950s , September 2006 - July 2007, p. 102, no. 28, illustrated in color

Literature:

Ronald Alley,. Francis Bacon , London, 1964, n.p., no. 43, illustrated and p. 61 (text). Chiyo Ishikawa, ed., . A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum , Seattle, 2008, p. 40, illustrated in color. Martin Harrison, ed.,. Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, 1929-57, London, 2016, pp. 266-267, no. 52-07, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Beaux Arts Gallery, London. Bernard H. Friedman, New York. Sanford Friedman, New York (gift from the above). Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above). Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1975