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FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)

Lot 10
05.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1380905
Lot 10 | FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)
Estimate value
£ 6 000 000 – 9 000 000
FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)
Portrait of Man with Glasses III
oil and silver sand on canvas
14 1/8 x 12 1/8in. (36 x 30.7cm.)
Executed in 1963




Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London. 
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1965). 
Private Collection, U.S.A. 
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London.
Private Collection, South Africa (acquired from the above in 1972). 
Ivor Braka Collection, London.
Private Collection, UK (acquired from the above circa 1996). 
Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

R. Alley and J. Rothenstein, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, London 1964, pp. 154 and 274, no. 219 (illustrated, p. 255).  
L. Trucchi, Francis Bacon, London 1975, p. 39, no. 91 (illustrated, p. 132). 
J. Russell, Francis Bacon, New York 1993, p. 123. 
F. Borel and M. Kundera, Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits, London 1996, p. 213 (illustrated in colour, p. 88). 
D. Sylvester, Looking Back at Francis Bacon, London 2000, p. 91-93 and 269, no. 76 (illustrated, p. 93).  
R. Arya (ed.), Francis Bacon: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives, Bern 2012, p. 151. 
M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné: Volume III, 1958-71, London 2016, pp. 724, 728 and 730, no. 63-10 (illustrated in colour, p. 729). 
Y. Peyré, Francis Bacon or The Measure of Excess, Paris 2019, pp. 223 and 317, no. 63.10 (illustrated in colour, p. 132).



Exhibited

London, Marlborough New London Gallery, Francis Bacon, 1963. 
Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Francis Bacon, 1997, no. 39 (illustrated in colour p. 136). This exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Francis Bacon: A Retrospective, 1999, p. 130, no. 40 (illustrated in colour, p. 131). This exhibition later travelled to Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 
Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Francis Bacon in Dublin, 2000, p. 74 and 124, no. 30 (illustrated in colour, p. 77). 
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Francis Bacon, 2001, p. 94 (illustrated in colour, p. 95). 
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads, 2005-2006, p. 22 and 45 no. 22 (illustrated in colour, p. 52). This exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Bacon, 2008, pp. 236-237, no. 32 (illustrated in colour, p. 124). 
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers: Portraits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, 2008, p. 186 (illustrated in colour, pp. 187 and 260). 
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Francis Bacon/Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone, 2013-2014, p. 134, no. 57 (illustrated in colour on the front cover and illustrated in colour, p. 135). This exhibition later travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario. 
Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Francis Bacon, Monaco and French Culture, 2016, p. 63, no. 29 (illustrated in colour, pp. 63 and 228).
Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Francis Bacon: de Picasso a Velázquez, 2016-2017, p. 203, no. 59 (illustrated in colour, p. 150). 
London, National Portrait Gallery, Francis Bacon: Human Presence, 2024-2025, p. 212, no. 10 (illustrated in colour, p. 47).
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