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Object Details
- Artist
- Francis Bacon, British, b. Dublin, Ireland, 1909–1992
- Provenance
- Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York, to 8 November 1968
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 8 November 1968-6 March 1972
- Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
- Exhibition History
- MARLBOROUGH-GERSON GALLERY, New York. "Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings," 11 November-7 December 1968, no. 10, color ill. p. 41.
- PARIS GALERIES NATIONALES DU GRAND PALAIS. "Francis Bacon," 26 October 1971-10 January 1972, no. 75, ill. p. 35.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 1007, pp. 648-49; pp. 660-61.
- TATE GALLERY, London. "Francis Bacon," 22 May-18 August 1985, no. 53, color ill. TOUR: STAATSGALERIE STUTTGART, 19 October-5 January 1986; NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin, 7 February-31 March.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Francis Bacon," 12 October 1989-7 January 1990, no. 33, color ill. TOUR: LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 11 February-29 April; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 24 May-28 August.
- BRITISH COUNCIL, London. [org. ONLY**} "Francis Bacon," no. 53, color ill. p. 152. TOUR: CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, 27 June-14 October 1996, no. 17, pp. 32-33; HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, 4 November-31 January 1997.
- HUGH LANE GALLERY OF MODERN ART, Dublin. "Francis Bacon in Dublin," 1 June- 31 August 2000, no. 34, color ill. pp. 102-104.
- KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN, Düsseldorf. "Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real," 16 September 2006-7 January 2007.
- TATE BRITAIN, London. "Francis Bacon," 11 September 2008-4 January 2009, color ill. pp. 232-233. TOUR: MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO, Madrid, 3 February-19 April; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, 18 May-16 August.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
- Published References
- UNSIGNED. Time (29 November 1968): p. 82.
- BATTCOCK, GREGORY. "Francis Bacon: First Major show in New York Gallery," Arts Magazine (November 1968): p. 47.
- GAVING, LAWRENCE. "Pigment Figment," Art News 67/8 (December 1968): p. 43.
- PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "Francis Bacon's New Paintings," Art International 12/10 (December 1968): p. 37.
- ASHTON, DORE. "New York Commentary," Studio International 177/907 (January 1969): p. 46.
- UNSIGNED. Die Weltrunst (January 1969): p. 11.
- RUSSELL, JOHN. "Francis Bacon at Sixty," Art in America 1 (January-February 1970): p. 11.
- GIBSON, MICHAEL. "The Ambigous Appeal of Francis Bacon's Work," International Herald Tribune (30-31 October 1971): p. 7.
- RUSSELL, JOHN. Francis Bacon (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1971): pp. 133, 174, 227.
- HOBHOUSE, JANET. "Francis Bacon," Arts Magazine, 46/4 (February 1972): p. 38.
- SECREST, MERYLE. "Hirshhorn: Gift to the Nation," Washington Post (11 March 1972): pp. C1, C5.
- ROTHENSTEIN, JOHN. Modern English Painters: Wood to Hockney (New York: St. Martins Press, 1974): p. 168.
- TRUCCHI, LORENZA. Francis Bacon (Milan: Fratelli Fabbris Editori, 1975).
- COURTHION, PIERRE. "Le plus grand musee de sculpture du monde: La Collection Hirshhorn," XXe siecle 45 (December 1975): p. 32.
- SPENDER, STEPHEN. Modern Masters: T.S. Eliot (New York: Viking Press, 1976): p. 55.
- QUANTRILL, MALCOLM. "From London: Some Anglo-Saxon Intentions and Responses," Art International 22/2 (February 1978): p. 87.
- SCHIFF, GERT. Images of Horror and Fantasy (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978): pp. 87-90.
- HYAMS, BARRY. Hirshhorn: Medici from Brooklyn (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979): p. 22.
- LAISSOE, ROLF. "Francis Bacon & T.S. Eliot," Hafnia Copenhagen Papers in the History of Art 9 (1983): pp. 113-30.
- DELEUZE, GILLES. "Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation," Flash Art (May 1983): pp. 8-16.
- LEIRIS, MICHEL. Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile (Phaidon, 1983): pl. 47, p. 23.
- PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "Francis Bacon's Studio," Connoisseur (September 1984): pp. 88-89.
- PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "Francis Bacon," Kunst og Kultur 1 (1985): fig. 6, ill., pp. 54-55.
- SCHMIED, WIELAND. Francis Bacon: Vier Studien zu einem Portrat (Berlin: Frolich & Kaufmann, 1985): p. 46.
- TWITCHELL, JAMES. Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985): pp. 14-15.
- DAVIES, HUGH and SALLY YARD. Francis Bacon (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986): p. 59.
- MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, INC. Francis Bacon: Paintings of the Eighties (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1987): pp. 12-13.
- LESSOE, ROLF. "Francis Bacon's Crucifixions and Related Themes," Hafnia Copenhagen Papers in the History of Art 11 (1987[printed August 1988]): pp. 7, 11.
- "Francis Bacon: Paintings," Moscow, The Central Hall of Artists, 23 September-6 November 1988 (The British Council and Marlborough Galleries, 1988): p. 24.
- SOKOLOV, MIKHAIL. "Tragedies without a Hero: The Art of Francis Bacon," Art Monthly (November 1988): pp. 3-5.
- PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "An Interview with Francis Bacon: Provoking Accidents, Prompting Chance," Art International 8 (Autumn 1989): ill., p. 33.
- PHILLIPS, EDWARD. "Our Bodies, Our Hells," Washington Post (13 October 1989): p. 57.
- FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Francis Bacon: An Old Master of the Elusive," Art News 91/6 (Summer 1992): pp. 48, 50.
- VAN ALPEN, ERNST. Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self (London: Reaktion Books, 1992): pp. 68-71.
- CORK, RICHARD. "Interview with Francis Bacon," Francis Bacon: Paintings 1981-1991 (New York, Madrid: Marlborough Galleries, 1992).
- SINCLAIR, ANDREW. Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993): pp. 208-209, 286-287.
- BOIME, ALBERT with PAUL ARDEN. The Odyssey of Jan Stussy in Black and White: Anxious Visions and Uncharted Dreams (Los Angeles: Jan Stussy Foundation, 1995): p. 141.
- D[...], PHILLIPPE. "Francis Bacon, la chair de l'histoire," Le Monde (26 June 1996).
- SARABEN, JACQUES. "Francis Bacon: une bouche comme un sahara," Les Archives d'art press.
- UNSIGNED. "La Soledad final de Francis Bacon," ABC (28 June 1996).
- LEVY, PAUL. "British Artists Teach French a Lesson," Wall Street Journal (28 June 1996).
- UNSIGNED. "L'humanite mise a nu par Francis Bacon," Humanite (3 July 1996).
- FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Scrambled Heads and Bacon," The Observer (30 June 1996).
- RIDING, ALAN. "A British Outsider Embraced with a French Blockbuster," New York TImes (10 July 1996): C11, C20.
- CREMIN, ANN. Arts & Antiques (September 1996).
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; New York: in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
- NEW HISTORY OF WORLD ART. (Tokyo: Shogakukan Inc., 1996).
- COHEN, DAVID. "The Dualist," Art in America (January 1997): pp. 64-70.
- PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "Provoking Accidents, Prompting Chance: An Interview with Francis Bacon," Gadfly (March 1998): pp. 11, 12, 50.
- SYLVESTER, DAVID. Francis Bacon: The Human Body (Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998): p. 38.
- DUFFY, JEAN. Reading Between the Lines: Claude Simon and the Visual Arts (Liverpool University Press, 1998): pp. 124-7.
- BARTLETT, JENNIFER. "A Peaceable Kingdom," The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, The Artist As Writer, ed. by Lorin Cuoco (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999): p. 59.
- BRIGHTON, ANDREW. Francis Bacon (Princeton University Press, 2001): pp. 22-23.
- AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 128, p. 143.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 72.16
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- panel A: 78 1/4 × 58 3/8 in. (198.8 × 148.3 cm) panel B: 78 1/4 × 58 1/4 in. (198.8 × 148 cm) panel C: 78 1/8 × 58 1/4 in. (198.4 × 148 cm)
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- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- School of London
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_72.16
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py24627bfbd-44fd-49f8-86b7-0fee61489c44
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