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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Evening Auction | 120 | $****** - ****** | Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud | |||
Feb 10, 2011 | Sotheby's | London | Looking Closely: A Private Collection | 30 | $****** - ****** | Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud |
paintings
35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in)
oil on canvas, in three parts
titled 3 Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud and dated 1964 (on the reverse of the right panel)
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London
Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1964)
Sotheby's London, 10 February 2011, lot 30
Acquired from the above sale
Hamburg, Kunstverein; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Dublin, The Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Francis Bacon , January-May 1965; no. 57 (Stockholm); no. 51 (Dublin)
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 Raisonné, 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)
Property from a Private European Collection
Francis Bacon
1909 - 1992
Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud
titled 3 Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud and dated 1964 (on the reverse of the right panel)
oil on canvas, in three parts
Each: 14 by 12 in.
Each: 35.6 by 30.5 cm.
Executed in 1964.
