FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)

Lot 17
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Lot 17 | FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)
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FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992)

Landscape near Malabata, Tangier

titled and dated ‘Landscape near Malabata, Tangier 1963’ (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

78 x 57in. (198.1 x 144.8cm.)

Painted in 1963





Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.

Roald Dahl Collection, Great Missenden.

Patricia Neal Collection, Great Missenden and New York.

Her sale, Sotheby’s New York, 2 May 1985, lot 58.

Ivor Braka Collection, London.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.



Literature

Francis Bacon: Recent Work, exh. cat., London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., 1963, no. 7 (illustrated, unpaged).

L. Alloway, 'Francis Bacon: A great, shocking, eccentric painter', in Vogue, vol. 142, no. 8, 1 November 1963, pp. 138 and 182, no. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 139).

'Art: In the New Grand Manner', in Time, vol. 82, no. 18, 1 November 1963, p. 82.

R. Alley and J. Rothenstein, Francis Bacon, London 1964, p. 152, no. 215 (illustrated, p. 253).

J. Rothenstein, 'Francis Bacon', in Vogue, London, vol. 212, no. 7, May 1964 (illustrated in colour, p. 108).

L. Trucchi, Francis Bacon, London and New York 1975, p. 39, no. 86 (illustrated, p. 127).

M. Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and In Profile, New York 1983, p. 258.

H. Davies and S. Yard, Francis Bacon, New York 1986, p. 44, no. 45 (illustrated in colour, p. 42).

E. van Alphen, Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self, London 1992, pp. 144 and 147, no. 76 (illustrated in colour, p. 133).

A. Sinclair, Francis Bacon: His Life And Violent Times, London 1993, p. 140.

B. Pearce, Brett Whiteley: Art & Life, New York 1995, p. 30.

M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, London 1996, pp. 173 and 176.

C. Domino, Francis Bacon: Painter of a Dark Vision, New York 1997 (illustrated in colour, p. 45).

C. Domino, Francis Bacon ‘Taking Reality by Surprise', London 1997 (illustrated in colour, p. 45).

J. C. Delpierre (ed.), 'Francis Bacon', in Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris 1997, no. 11 (illustrated in colour, p. 16).

D. Sylvester, Looking back at Francis Bacon, New York 2000, pp. 168, 175 and 270, no. 132 (illustrated in colour, p. 176).

C. Tóibín, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar, London 2003, p. 163.

L. Ficacci, Bacon: 1909-1992, Cologne 2003, p. 52 (illustrated in colour, p. 53).

M. Cappock, Francis Bacon’s Studio, London 2005, p. 137, fig. 251 (illustrated in colour, p. 139).

M. Harrison, In Camera: Francis Bacon, Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting, London 2005, p. 126, no. 127 (illustrated in colour, p. 127).

W. Schmied, Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict, Munich 2006, p. 164.

M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in the 1950s, New Haven 2006, p. 171.

M. Harrison, 'Bacon’s Many Sources Do Not Explain His Works', in The Art Newspaper, vol. XV, no. 165, January 2006, p. 37.

M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews, New Haven 2008, p. 262.

D. Dalwood, 'Francis Bacon', in Burlington Magazine, vol. 150, no. 1269, December 2008 (illustrated in colour, p. 841).

M. Harrison, (ed.), Francis Bacon: New Studies, Centenary Essays, Gottingen 2009, no. 173 (illustrated in colour, p. 270).

J. Richardson, 'Bacon Agonistes', in The New York Review of Books, 17 December 2009 (digital).

A. M. Wieland, Francis Bacon, Munich 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 83).

D. Sturrock, Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, London 2010, pp. 440 and 540.

Francis Bacon: Late Paintings, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2015, p. 73 (illustrated in colour, p. 72).

M. Harrison and R. Daniels (eds.), Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume III, 1958-71, London 2016, pp. 718 and 720, no. 63-06 (illustrated in colour, p. 719; detail illustrated in colour, p. 721).

M. Cappock, 'Francis Bacon', in Burlington Magazine, vol. CLVIII, October 2016, p. 846.

Francis Bacon Couplings, exh. cat., Gagosian, London, 2019 (illustrated in colour, p. 33).

Y. Peyré, Francis Bacon or the Measure of Excess, Paris 2019, p. 317 (illustrated in colour, p. 133).

S. Moore, 'London Calling', in Apollo, December 2019, p. 71.

C. Tóibín, 'Open in a Scream', in London Review of Books, vol. 43, no. 5, 4 March 2021 (digital).

M. Stevens and A. Swan, Francis Bacon: Revelations, London 2021, pp. 459-460.



Exhibited

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Francis Bacon, 1963-1964, p. 29, no. 64 (illustrated, p. 73). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago.

London, Tate Gallery, Painting & Sculpture of a Decade 54-64, 1964, no. 143 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Francis Bacon, 1971-1972, p. 48, no. 47 (illustrated, p. 121). This exhibition later travelled to Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle.

Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery, 1972-1977 (on long term loan).

Waltham, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, 1982-1985 (on long term loan).

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982, 1983, p. 24, no. 20 (illustrated in colour, p. 47; illustrated, p. 85). This exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery.

London, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon, 1985-1986, p. 235, no. 41 (illustrated in colour, p. 76). This exhibition later travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie and Berlin, Nationalgalerie.

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Francis Bacon: Retrospektive, 1987, no. 16 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).

Moscow, Central House of the Artists, New Tretyakov Gallery, Francis Bacon Paintings, 1988, pp. 12, 18, 40 and 72, no. 7 (illustrated in colour, p. 41).

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Francis Bacon, 1989-1990, pp. 20, 94 and 179, no. 25 (illustrated in colour, p. 95). This exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art.

Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna della Città di Luagno, Francis Bacon, 1993, p. 66, no. 30 (illustrated in colour, p. 67; illustrated, p. 147).

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Francis Bacon, 1996 - 1997, p. 142, no. 41 (illustrated in colour, p. 143). This exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst.

New Haven, The Yale Center for British Art, Francis Bacon: A Retrospective, 1999, p. 128, no. 39 (illustrated in colour, p. 129). 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, pp. 15, 69 and 124, no. 29 (illustrated in colour, p. 73).

Porto, Fundação de Serralves, Francis Bacon: Caged, Uncaged, 2003, pp. 142 and 271 (illustrated in colour, p. 143).

London, Tate Britain, Francis Bacon A Centenary Retrospective, 2008-2009, pp. 181 and 280 (illustrated in colour, p. 187). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, Francis Bacon and the Art of the Past, 2014-2015, p. 130, no. 64 (illustrated in colour, pp.131 and 205). This exhibition later travelled to Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts as Francis Bacon and the Masters.

Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Francis Bacon, France and Monaco, 2016, p. 34, no. 11 (detail illustrated in colour, p. 2; illustrated in colour, pp. 35 and 227).

Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Francis Bacon: de Picasso a Velázquez, 2016-2017, pp. 122 and 203, no. 45 (illustrated in colour, p. 123).

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, 2022, pp. 62 and 90, no. 20 (detail illustrated in colour, pp, 64-65; illustrated in colour, p. 91).
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