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Provenance: Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Willy & Fänn Schniewind, Neviges.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1983.

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Exhibited: London, Tate Gallery, Painting and Sculpture of a Decade: 54-64, 1964, no. 144, p. 132 (illustrated, p. 133).
Siegen, Oberes Schloss, Francis Bacon, 1967, no. 7 (illustrated, p. 31).
Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Zeitgenossen: das Gesicht unserer Gesellschaft in Spiegel der heutigen Kunst, 1970, no. 9 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Francis Bacon, 1971-1972, no. 49, p. 48 (illustrated in colour, p. 122). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Francis Bacon: Retrospektive, 1987, no. 17, (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Francis Bacon 1909-1992 Retrospektive, 1996-1997, no. 40 (illustrated in colour, p. 137 and installation view illustrated, p. 305).

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Literature: D. Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon, Oxford 1975, no. 26, p. 126 (illustrated, p. 29).
J. Russell, Francis Bacon, London and New York 1985, no. 31, p. 186 (illustrated, p. 79).
J. Russell, Francis Bacon, London 1993, no. 31 (illustrated, p. 79).
R. Chiappini (ed.), Bacon, exh. cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2008, fig. 5 (illustrated in colour, p. 73).

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Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Portrait of Henrietta Moraes
titled, inscribed and dated 'Portrait of HENRIETTA MORAES From Photograph by JOHN DEAKIN 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
65 x 56in. (165 x 142cm.)
Painted in 1963