LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and Letraset on canvas

Measurements:

13.98 in. (35.50 cm.) (height) by 12.01 in. (30.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 1975 on the reverse

Exhibited:

Zurich, Marlborough Gallery, . Francis Bacon , May - July 1975 . Madrid, Galería Theo, . Diez años de Galería Theo , December 1976 - January 1977, n.p., no. 2, illustrated in colour

Literature:

John Russell,. Francis Bacon , London 1979 and 2001, p. 171, no. 97, illustrated (1979); p. 165, no. 89, illustrated (2001). Michel Leiris,. Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile , New York 1983, n.p., no. 97, illustrated in colour. Michel Leiris,. Francis Bacon , New York 1987, n.p., no. 97, illustrated in colour. Exh. Cat., London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. ., Francis Bacon 1909 - 1992: Small Portrait Studies , October - December 1993, n.p., illustrated. Milan Kundera and France Borel,. Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits , London 1996, p. 61, illustrated in colour. Martin Harrison, Ed., . Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné , . Volume IV. 1971-92 , London 2016, p. 1071, no. 75-02, illustrated in colour

Provenance:

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London. Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in 1976). Private Collection (by descent from the above). Sotheby's, London, 1 July 2015, Lot 9 (consigned by the above). Acquired from the above sale by the present owner