FRANCIS BACON- RARE ORIGINAL GRAPHIC WORK- 1987
Triptych "Study of the Male Back" -Hand Signed by BACON
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A unique opportunity to own an original graphic work, hand signed by Francis Bacon.Tritych of 3 individual lithographs in arches paper. Edition of 99. (1987)Each lithograph is pencil hand signed on the lower right by Francis Bacon and numbered on the lower left. Provenance Paris - Private collection - Title : 3 studies of the Male Back, Dimension : 23 3/4 in x 31 1/2 in - 81 cm x 59.5 cm - Each PanelPublisher : Art International ParisYear : 1987 - Mint condition Estimate £ 30000 - £35000Published in the catalog "Lithographies et Gravures" - Galerie Daniel Lelong - Paris 1987The oil on canvas is part of the collection of the Kunsthaus Museum in ZurichSince last year the price range of an oil on canvas of Francis Bacon fetched $ 52 millions several times until now at auctions.Lithograph of one piece fetched over $40,000. This collector item is a 3 pieces (triptych)The whole triptych (3 lithographs) is quite rare to find on the market. On October 2007, One panel of the triptych was sold $ 12,500. at Christie’s.Francis Bacon was born in October 1909 in Dublin, Ireland of English parentage. He died on April 1992 in Madrid, Spain (82 years old).Bacon was an entirely self taught painter and it was an exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso that inspired him to make his first drawings and paintings.By the 1950s, Bacon had developed his distinctive style as a figure painter, depicting human beings screaming in physical and psychic pain in a series of stark bedrooms, bathrooms and cages. The style of his work was expressionistic and depicted distorted human forms that stood as images of corrupt and debased humanity.In 1974, Bacon met John Edwards, a young Eastender with whom he formed an enduring, paternal relationship. Bacon died on April 28, 1992 in Madrid and bequeathed his entire estate to Edwards after his death. Edwards, in turn, donated the contents of Francis Bacon's chaotic studio at 7 Recce Mews, South Kensington, to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, where the studio was carefully reconstructed as Bacon had left it.Francis Bacon is one of the most important artists of the art history of the post war period. Its paintings are part of the collections of the most important museums of the world, and the prices broke records at auctions and keep on increasing every year.In May 16, 2007 at Sothebys, New York, a Francis Bacon painting smashed the auction record for postwar art fetching $52.7 million.For the coming auctions (May 2008) at Sothebys, a triptych painting of Francis Bacon's may fetch $70 Million in N.Y. (theartnewspaper.com)Museum Bacon collection Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoDallas Museum of Art, DallasGuggenheim Museum, New YorkMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMinneapolis Institute of Arts, MinneapolisMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkNational Galleries of Scotland, EdinburghNational Gallery of Australia, CanberraPeggy Guggenheim Collection, VeniceStädel Museum, Franckfurt, GermanyArt Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, ColombiaArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaAstrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, NorwayBilbao Fine Arts Museum, SpainDublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, IrelandGemeentemuseum, The Hague, NetherlandsHatton Gallery at the University of Newcastle, UKHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.Kunsthaus, ZurichLouisiana Museum of Modern Art, DenmarkManchester City Art Gallery, UKModern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TexasMUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, VienaMuseum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoMuseum of Fine Arts, Lyon, FranceMuseum of London, UKNational Museums and Galleries of WalesReina Sofia National Museum, MadridRoyal Museums of Fine Arts, BelgiumS.M.A.K., Ghent, BelgiumSainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, EnglandTate Gallery, LondonTehran Museum of Contemporary Art, IranThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, MadridVon der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, GermanyWalker Art Center, MinnesotaWhithworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
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