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Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Portrait of Henrietta Moraes

Price realised USD 47,765,000
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Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Portrait of Henrietta Moraes

Price realised USD 47,765,000
Closed: 13 May 2015
Price realised USD 47,765,000
Closed: 13 May 2015
Details
Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Portrait of Henrietta Moraes
titled, inscribed and dated ‘Portrait of HENRIETTA MORAES From Photograph by JOHN DEAKIN 1963’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
65 x 56 in. (165.1 x 142.2 cm.)
Painted in 1963.
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Willy & Fänn Schniewind, Neviges
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Private collection, New York
Anon sale; Christie’s, London, 14 February 2012, lot 12
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
B. Robertson, J. Russell and A. Snowdon, eds., Private View: The Lively World of British Art, London, 1965, p. 66 (illustrated in color).
D. Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon, Oxford, 1975, pp. 29 and 126, no. 26 (illustrated).
J. Russell, Francis Bacon, London and New York, 1985, pp. 79 and 186, no. 31 (illustrated).
J. Russell, Francis Bacon, London, 1993, p. 79, no. 31 (illustrated).
M. Cappock, Francis Bacon’s Studio, London, 2005, p. 46, no. 70 (illustrated in color).
Bacon, exh. cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2008, p. 73, fig. 5 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Painting and Sculpture of a Decade: 54-64, April-June 1964, pp. 132-133, no. 144 (illustrated).
Siegen, Oberes Schloss, Francis Bacon, June-July 1967, p. 31, no. 7 (illustrated).
Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Zeitgenossen: das Gesicht unserer Gesellschaft in Spiegel der heutigen Kunst, May-July 1970, n.p., no. 9 (illustrated in color).
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Francis Bacon, October 1971-May 1972, pp. 48 and 122, no. 49 (illustrated in color).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Francis Bacon: Retrospektive, June-September 1987, n.p., no. 17 (illustrated in color).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Francis Bacon 1909-1992 Retrospektive, November 1996-January 1997, pp. 137 and 305, no. 40 (illustrated in color and installation view illustrated).
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Bacon/Moore: Flesh and Bone, September 2013 - January 2014, pp. 132-133, no. 56 (illustrated in color).

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