Life Mask of Francis Bacon

Details

Clive Barker (b. 1940)
Life Mask of Francis Bacon
signed, inscribed, dated and numbered 'FRANCIS BACON LIFE MASK/CLIVE BARKER 1969 7/7' (on the reverse)
bronze with a brown patina
8¼ in. (21 cm.) long, excluding base
Edition of 8 and 2 A/P.

Literature

A.J.Fermon & M.Livingstone, Clive Barker: Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2000, Milan, 2002, no.85, p.97, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Hanover Gallery, Clive Barker, 1969, no.19, illustrated.
Copenhagen, Nova-London Fine Art, British Figurative Art Today and Tomorrow, 1972, illustrated front cover.
Cologne, Baukunst-Galerie, Künstler aus England, no.8.
Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery (and tour), Clive Barker: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints (retrospective exhibition), 1981-82, no.23.

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Lot Essay

Barker cast the present work directly from Francis Bacon's face in Bacon's studio. Barker says 'in retrospect I can see it was very difficult for Francis. Francis, of course, had asthma, and being under that for 30 minutes can not have been very comfortable (Clive Barker, private correspondence, 12 October 2005).

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