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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 8 | $****** - ****** | TWO STUDIES FOR A SELF-PORTRAIT |
paintings
35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in)
oil on canvas, in two parts
signed, titled and dated 1970 on the reverse of each panel
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1970
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; and Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Francis Bacon, October 1971 - May 1972, p. 131, no. 103, illustrated
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Francis Bacon 1909-1992: Small Portrait Studies, October - December 1993, n.p., no. 20, illustrated in color and n.p., illustrated in color (detail of the left panel)
Milan Kundera, Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits, London, 1996, pp. 180-181, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the cover (right panel)
John Russell, Francis Bacon, London, 2001, illustrated in color on the cover (detail of the right panel)
