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Francis Bacon
Second Version of Painting 1946, 1971.
Offset in colors
Starting bid: € 3,000 / $ 3,420
151
Francis Bacon
Second Version of Painting 1946, 1971.
Offset in colors
Starting bid: € 3,000 / $ 3,420

Francis Bacon
1909 - 1992
Second Version of Painting 1946. 1971.
Offset in colors.
Signed and numbered. From an edition of 150 copies. On Arches wove paper. 81 x 59 cm (31.8 x 23.2 in), the full sheet.
Published by Städtischen Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf. [AW].

• With his inimitable visual language, Bacon is considered one of the most significant painters of the 20th century.
• The deformed human body in a tightly constructed space is one of his most characteristic subjects.
• Offset print based on the painting of the same name, which is now in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne; the first version has been in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, since 1948
.

PROVENANCE: Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf.
Private collection (acquired from the above).
Private collection, Southern Germany (gifted from the above around 1974).

LITERATURE: Bruno Sabatier, Francis Bacon. Œuvre graphique – The graphique work. Catalogue raisonné, Paris 2012, CR no. 31.

In good condition. Slightly creased in places.






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