LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas, in three parts
Size Notes:
14 x 12
Description:
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Exhibited:
Hamburg, Kunstverein; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Dublin, The Municipal Gallery of Modern Art,Francis Bacon, January-May 1965; no. 57 (Stockholm); no. 51 (Dublin);
Literature:
Colin Gleadell, 'Bacon's triptych of his great friend Freud emerges after 45 years' The Daily Telegraph, 4 January 2011, p. 22, illustrated; Phoebe Hoban, Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open, Boston 2014, pp. 60, 90 (text); Martin Harrison, ed.,Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonn,Vol. III, 1958-71, London 2016, no. 64-01, pp. 740-741, illustrated in color; Sebastian Smee,Freud & Bacon,??Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, London 2016,p. 85 (text); William Feaver,The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years: 1922-1968, New York 2019, p. 576 (text)
Provenance:
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., LondonPrivate Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1964)Sotheby's London,10 February 2011, lot 30Acquired from the abovesale