Sale: 404 / Post War/ Contemporary Art, April 20. 2013 in Munich Lot 578

 

578
Francis Bacon
Triptych 1986-1987, 1987.
Etching and aquatint in colors
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400
Sold:
€ 6,625 / $ 7,155

(incl. surcharge)
Triptych 1986-1987. 1987.
Etching and aquatint in colors.
Sabatier 6. Signed and numbered. From an edition of 99 copies. On firm wove paper. 65,3 x 48,7 cm (25,7 x 19,1 in). Sheet: 89,5 x 62,6 cm (35,2 x 24,6 in).
Printed and published by Poligrafa, Barcelona. This is the aquatint in colors after the center panel of the "Triptych" made in 1986 and 1987, which shows the politician John Edwards in Bacon's characteristic disturbing pictorial language. [KP].

LITERATURE: Cf. Francis Bacon. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1988/1992. Illu. in colors p. 12 ("Triptychon", 1986/87).
Cf. Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon. Das Bewußtsein der Gewalt, Munich/New York 1996, plate 62 ("Studie zu einem Portrait von John Edwards", 1988).




578
Francis Bacon
Triptych 1986-1987, 1987.
Etching and aquatint in colors
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400
Sold:
€ 6,625 / $ 7,155

(incl. surcharge)