Three Studies of Male Back (One Work - Right Panel of the Tryptych) 1987

Year1987

Hand SignedSigned By the Artist in Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassWooden Frame 

Purchased fromAuction House 2021 

Provenance / HistoryProvenance: 1) From the Collection of the Tacou Family 2) Collection particulière, Paris (acquired directly from the above) 3) Sothebys, London - At which several works from the Alexandre Tacou collection were sold. 

Story / Additional InfoTitle: Three Studies of Male Back (One Work - Right hand panel of the tryptych). Medium: Lithograph, in colours, 1987 , on Arches (watermarked) paper, signed by the artist in pencil. Literature: Bruno Sabatier: Francis Bacon: Oeuvre Graphique (Catalogue Raisonee) Number 21 (Pages 78 and 79) , Alexandre Tacou 21. Published by: Michael Peppiatt for the review Art international. Printed by: Galerie Lelong, Paris, France. Framed size: 73 x 90 cms. Note: Alexandre Tacou created a celebrated collection of prints by Francis Bacon which was virtually complete. A catalogue of the collection was published by Collections de St-Cyprien in 2008. 

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LID149446

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.