ID 792348
Lot 77 | FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)
Estimate value
£ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
Seated Man
oil on canvas
55 x 43 3⁄8in. (140 x 110cm.)
Painted circa 1957
Provenance
Nicholas Brusolowski, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1959).
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels.
Private Collection, Paris.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2000).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 30 June 2014, lot 30.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II: 1929-57, London 2016, p. 532, no. 57-26 (illustrated in colour, p. 533).
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, L' Europe des Peintres, 1979, no. 8 (incorrectly illustrated as no. 6, unpaged).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
| Artist: | Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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