PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE HON. GARECH DOMNAGH BROWNE, OWNED BY BARBICAN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION LTD.
Lucian Freud (1922-2011)

Francis Bacon

Price realised GBP 488,750
Estimate
GBP 500,000 – GBP 700,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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Lucian Freud (1922-2011)

Francis Bacon

Price realised GBP 488,750
Closed: 4 Oct 2018
Price realised GBP 488,750
Closed: 4 Oct 2018
Details
Lucian Freud (1922-2011)
Francis Bacon
conté crayon on paper
21½ x 16¾in. (54.7 x 43cm.)
Executed in 1951
Provenance
The Hon. Garech Domnagh Browne, Ireland (acquired directly from the artist in the 1950s).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
W. Feaver, Lucian Freud, New York 2007, p. 472, no. 69 (illustrated in colour, p. 105).
M. Holborn (ed.), Lucian Freud On Paper, London 2008, p. 164 and p. 267, no. 102 (illustrated, p. 165).
Exhibited
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s, 2011, p. 580, no. 99 (illustrated in colour, p. 163).
London, Blain Southern Gallery, Lucian Freud Drawings, 2012, p. 215, no. 65 (illustrated in colour, pp. 120 and 215). This exhibition later travelled to New York, Acquavella Galleries.
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.
Further details
This work will be included in the forthcoming publication of the Lucian Freud catalogue raisonné.

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