Francis Bacon - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm

  • Provenance

    Coskun Fine Art, London

  • Literature

    Bruno Sabatier 29
    Alexandre Tacou 37

  • Artist Biography

    Francis Bacon

    Irish-British • 1909 - 1992

    Francis Bacon was a larger-than-life figure during his lifetime and remains one now more than ever. Famous for keeping a messy studio, and even more so for his controversial, celebrated depictions of papal subjects and bullfights, often told in triptychs, Bacon signified the blinding dawn of the Modern era. His signature blurred portraits weren't murky enough to stave off his reputation as highly contentious—his paintings were provocations against social order in the people's eye. But, Bacon often said, "You can't be more horrific than life itself."
     
    In conversation with yet challenging the conventions of Modern art, Bacon was known for his triptychs brutalizing formalist truths, particularly Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, which Bacon debuted in London in 1944, and Three Studies of Lucian Freud, which became famous when it set the record for most expensive work of art at auction at the time it sold in 2013.

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Francis Bacon

Miroir de la tauromachie: centre panel

1990
Lithograph in colours, on Arches paper, the full sheet, from the book Miroir de la tauromachie, with a text by Michel Leiris,
S. 48 x 36 cm (18 7/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
signed in pencil, from the edition of 150 (there were also 5 hors commerce impressions, only the books were numbered on the colophon), published by Galerie Lelong, Paris, in excellent condition, framed.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 ♠

Sold for £12,500

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Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm