LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas, in three parts

Size Notes:

each

Markings:

signed, titled, inscribed and dated '3 Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards Francis Bacon 1984 left panel' (on the reverse of the left panel); signed, titled, inscribed and dated '3 Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards Francis Bacon 1984 center panel' (on the reverse of the center panel); signed, titled, inscribed and dated '3 Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards Francis Bacon 1984 right panel' (on the reverse of the right panel)

Exhibited:

London, Tate Gallery; Stüttgart, Staatsgallerie and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Francis Bacon, May 1985-March 1986, no. 125 (illustrated in color). New York, Marlborough Gallery, Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, November-December 1986, no. 2 (illustrated in color). New York, Marlborough Gallery, Francis Bacon, Paintings of the Eighties, May-July 1987, pp. 26-27, no. 5 (illustrated in color). Paris, Galerie Lelong, Francis Bacon, Peintures Récentes, September-November 1987, no. 1 (illustrated in color). Moscow, Central House of the Union of Artists, Francis Bacon Paintings, September-November 1988, no. 16 (illustrated in color). Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Francis Bacon, March-May 1993, pp. 119-123 and 161, no. 56 (illustrated in color). Zaragoza, Palacio de la Lonja, Después de Goya-Una Mirada Subjectiva, November 1996-January 1997, pp. 337 and 339-341, no. 167 (illustrated in color). New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Francis Bacon: A Retrospective, January-October 1999, pp. 205-208, pl. 67 (illustrated in color). New York, Gagosian Gallery, Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers: Portraits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, November-December 2008, pp. 196-198 and 261 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

J. Russell, Francis Bacon, London, 1985 (center panel illustrated in color on the cover). H. Davies and S. Yard, Francis Bacon, New York, 1986, pp. 88-89 (illustrated in color). Francis Bacon, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996, p. 238 (illustrated). Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate, exh. cat., New York, Tony Shrafazi Gallery, 1998, inside front cover (illustrated in color). D. Ades, 'Francis Bacon: Boundaries of the Body,' Núcleo Histórico: Antropofagia e Históras de Canibalismos, XXIV Bienal de São Paolo, October-December 1998, pp. 418-419 (illustrated in color). 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio, New York, 2001, pp. 92-93 (illustrated in color). M. Cappock, Francis Bacon's Studio, London, 2005, p. 107, fig. 185 (illustrated in color). M. Harrison, In Camera: Francis Bacon Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting, New York, 2005, p. 195, no. 216 (illustrated in color). Francis Bacon, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2006, p. 201 (illustrated in color). M. Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty, exh. cat., Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, 2009, p. 58 (illustrated in color). A. Bond, ed., Francis Bacon: Five Decades, exh. cat., Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2012, p. 14 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Collection of the Artist. Marlborough Gallery, New York. Private collection, France. Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 8 February 2001, lot 13. Private collection, Brazil. Acquired from the above by the present owner.