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Artist or Maker: Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

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Provenance: Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Given by the artist in lieu of rent to the present owners in 1975 (a replacement for another work).

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Exhibited: London, Royal Academy of Arts, British Painting 1952-1977 , September-November 1977, no. 28, p. 29.
London, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon , May-August 1985, no. 90 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Suttgart, Staatsgalerie, October 1985-January 1986 and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, February-March 1986.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, The Pursuit of the Real: British Figurative Painting, from Sickert to Bacon , March-April 1990, no. 47 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to London, Barbican Art Gallery, May-July 1990 and Glasgow, City Art Gallery, July-September 1990.
Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Francis Bacon , March-May 1993.
Sheffield, Millennium Galleries, Francis Bacon , July-September 2001.
Valencia, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Francis Bacon: The Sacred and the Profane , December 2003-March 2004 (illustrated in colour, p. 98). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée Maillol, April-June 2004.
Dusseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Francis Bacon-The Violence of the Real , September 2006-January 2007, no. 58 (illustrated in colour, p. 175).

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART