Sale 6740
London
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2 July 2003
Price realised
GBP 4,182
Estimate
Francis Bacon Study for a Portrait of Pope Innocent X lithograph in colours, 1989, on Arches, signed in pencil, numbered, published by Librairie Seguier for IRCAM, Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, a deckle edge at the bottom, with margins, generally in very good condition L. 950 x 690mm., S. 1165 x 770mm.
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