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BACON, Francis (Dublin 1909 – Madrid 1992)<\/h1>\n

Renowned for triptychs of breathtaking intensity, Francis Bacon paints a ravaged world in which violence and tragedy emerge at every stroke of the brush. He confessed to being pursued by Aeschylus’s line:\u00a0<\/span>\u00ab\u00a0The smell of human blood smiles out at me..\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/em>\u00a0His oeuvre moves between vast narrative cycles \u2014 filled with friends, sitters, and homages to Vel\u00e1zquez, Van Gogh, and Picasso \u2014 and anguished portraits, whose figures appear bent, broken, and swallowed up by the very fabric of the paint.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Study for Portrait\u00a0 (after the Life Mask of William Blake)<\/p>\n

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1991<\/p>\n

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Print : 60 x 50 cm<\/p>\n

Sheet : 80 x 60 cm<\/p>\n

Framed<\/p>\n

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lithograph in colours, 1991, on Rives paper, signed in pencil, numbered 4\/60, the full sheet, in very good condition.<\/p>\n

Provenance :<\/p>\n

Collection of Angelo Rinaldi, Paris<\/p>\n

Swiss private collection<\/p>\n

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on request<\/p>\n

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