Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Study for Portrait. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2013 signed, titled and dated 'Study for Portrait 1981 Francis Bacon' (on the reverse); oil on canvas; 78 1/8 x 58 1/8 in. (198.4 x 147.6 cm.). Painted in 1981. Estimate $18,000,000 – $25,000,000 Provenance: Marlborough Gallery Inc., New YorkAcquired from the above by the present owner, 1983 Literature: M. Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, Oxford, 1983, pp. 228 and 270, no. 135 (illustrated in... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait of PL 1962, 1962. Oil on canvas, 78 x 57 inches. Est. $30/40 million. Photo: Sotheby's. NEW YORK, NY.- On 14 May 2013 in New York Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction will feature Francis Bacon’s 1962 Study for a Portrait of P.L. Psychologically arresting, this astonishingly-intimate portrait stands as a surviving eulogy of the artist’s ill-fated lover, Peter Lacy and summates a relationship that had a paramount effect on both Bacon’s life and work. Painted posthumously, just months after his... [Lire la suite]

Canvases were cut up by aspiring painter to practise his 'Sunday painting'. Ewbank's sale expected to raise £100,000-plus. LONDON (BLOOMBERG).- Francis Bacon works discovered on the backs of amateur paintings sold for almost $70,000 today at an auction in Surrey, southern England. The six works, showing background and architectural elements from what appear to be 1950s “Pope” paintings by Bacon, were on the reverse of canvases by the little-known artist Lewis Todd offered by Ewbank’s on the second day of a sale in Guildford. A... [Lire la suite]

Francis Giacobetti (né en 1939), Iris Francis Bacon. Photo Cornette de Saint Cyr Bruxelles Tirage baryté sur dibond. Signature sur le certificat. 120 x 60cm - Estimation : 20 000 / 22 000 € Cornette de Saint Cyr Bruxelles. Mardi 5 mars 2013. Chaussée de Charleroi, 89 - 1060 Bruxelles. Contact: Sabine Mund - s.mund@cornette-saintcyr.com - T +32 2 880 73 85 - M +32 496 54 88 46

Francis Bacon. Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, © The Francis bacon Estate. BRUSSELS.- An exhibition exploring the diversity of contemporary Irish art practice through the work of 20 artists opened to the public at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, on Thursday 28 February 2013 as a key event in the culture programme on the occasion of Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union supported by Culture Ireland. The exhibition also presents archive material, photographs, and unfinished paintings from Francis Bacon's Studio.  ... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Three Studies from the Human Body. Oil on canvas, 77 3Ž4 x 58 1/8 in. (198 x 147.3 cm). Painted in 1969. Private Collection. LONDON.- At the beginning of September 1959, Francis Bacon travelled to Cornwall, seeking to escape the distractions of London, and took out a six-month rental on a studio in St Ives from the artists William Redgrave and Peter Lanyon. One evening at a party in St Ives, Redgrave noticed Bacon talking with Brian Wall; Bacon asked Wall what he did. ‘I’m a sculptor’, replied Wall; ‘How... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon, Man in Blue VI. Oil on canvas, 60⅛ x 46in. Painted in 1954. Estimate: £4,000,000-6,000,000 / US$6,100,000-9,000,000 / €4,500,000-6,700,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2013. LONDON.- On the evening of 13 February, Christie’s London will offer at auction a group of important works created by some of the most celebrated British masters of the 20th century: Francis Bacon (b.1902-1992), Allen Jones (b.1937), David Hockney (b.1937), Peter Doig (b.1959) and Damien Hirst (b.1965). The featured works are... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), Study for portrait. Photo Sotheby's signed, titled and dated 1976 on the reverse; oil on canvas, 35.5 by 30cm. 14 by 12in. Estimation: 1,800,000 - 2,500,000 GBP  PROVENANCE: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1977 EXHIBITED: Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Francis Bacon, 1977 NOTE DE CATALOGUE: "The single head, fourteen inches by twelve, was from 1961 onwards the scene of some of... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon, Three Studies for a Self-Portrait, signed, titled and dated 1980. Oil on canvas, each 35.5 by 30.5 cm.; 14 by 12 in. Estimate: GBP10,000,000 – 15,000,000. Photo: Sotheby's. LONDON.- In the wake of Sotheby’s third most successful year ever for global auctions of Contemporary Art (2012), which totalled $1.25 billion and saw a new record set for the work of any living artist, the company is delighted to present its February Evening Auction of Contemporary Art. The sale, which will take place at Sotheby’s New Bond Street... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon, Untitled (Three Figures), C. 1981, Dublin City, Gallery The Hugh Lane © The Estate of Francis Bacon. BRUSSELS.- The Centre for Fine Arts starts the new year with an exceptional programme of exhibitions; true to the Centre's mission, these turn a spotlight on European culture. The exhibitions explore in depth the work of a number of leading artists from neighbouring countries, focusing on 18th-century France and Antoine Watteau, on Germany after the fall of the Wall, via the monumental works of Neo Rauch, and on... [Lire la suite]