L’homme Au Lavabo / Figure At a Washbasin 1978
Francis Bacon
Limited Edition Print : Etching & Aquatint in Colours, 1978, on Arches Paper
Size : 26.57x20.47 in | 67x52 cm
Edition : From the edition of XLVI
Reduced
- 🔥1978 Framed Etching and Aquatint - Inquire - Blue Chip
Year1978
Hand SignedSigned By the Artist in Pencil.
Condition Excellent
Other Frame
Purchased fromAuction House 2021
Story / Additional InfoTitle: L’Homme au LavaboFigure at a washbasinMedium: Etching & Aquatint in colours, 1978, on Arches paper, signed by the artist in pencil. This is printed on a half sheet of a printed page and folded over to be framed, with the blindstamp of the Publisher, below right.Literature: Bruno Sabatier: Francis Bacon: Oeuvre Graphique (Catalogue Raisonee) Number 3Francis Bacon: Estampes - collection Alexandre Tacou Number 35Published by: Editions Georges Vivat et Cie (Paris)Printed by: Georges Visat et Cie (Paris) Note: This item was a bookplate in: “Francis Bacon ou les ultimes convulsions de l’humaine” in the book “Requiem pour la fine des tennis” which has a text by Eddy Batch.
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Francis Bacon - Ireland
Art Brokerage: Francis Bacon Irish Artist. b. 1909-1992. Bacon was an Irish artist and one of the most unique, engaging figurative painters to emerge during the post-war period. His grotesque imagery—contorted limbs, howling mouths agape, blood—served as method of exploring nihilism and death at a time when Europe had been repeatedly savaged by war. Inspired by both the Old Masters and Surrealism, Bacon produced several compositions based on the work of other painters, notably including his arresting Study After Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953). In this iconic work, Bacon transforms Diego Velazquez’s classic portrait into a screaming, terrifying figure. “I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs,” he once said. “The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.” Born on October 28, 1909 in Dublin, Ireland, the self-taught artist moved to London to escape a hostile home life. Bacon became part of the local art scene in the British capital, which included his friends Lucian Freud, Isabel Lambert, and John Deakin. After the death of Bacon’s lover in 1972, his work became even more personalized, with a renewed focus on mortality. In 1963, a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York brought international prestige, which continued until his death on April 28, 1992 in Madrid, Spain. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hugh Lane in Dublin, and the Albertina in Vienna, among others. Listings wanted.