Francis Bacon

Details

R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007)
Francis Bacon
titled, inscribed and dated '1969 F.B. for John from Sholto' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas board
11 7/8 x 10in. (30.2 x 25.4cm.)
Executed in 1969

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Literature

R. Morphet, R.B. Kitaj: A Retrospective, London, 1994 (illustrated, p. 61).

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Beatriz Ordovas

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

'Bacon is special in my life...although I was never as close to the wicked witch as they were and he badmouthed us all. He got under my skin before I came to England. In NY in the early fifties I'd already decided that Bacon and Balthus were my favourite post-war painters and I still feel that today... We lived in the same district for his last twenty-five years and gossiped in the supermarket and streets' (Kitaj, quoted in R. Morphet, "Kitaj interviewed by Richard Morphet", in R.B. Kitaj: A Retrospective, London 1994, p. 44).

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