Figure at a Basin 1978

Francis Bacon (1909-1992, English)

Figure at a Basin 1978

etching
47.0 x 36.0 cm

numbered and signed below image

edition: AP 2/20

Provenance:

William Bowmore collection, New South Wales

Mossgreen, Melbourne, 21 November 2008,

lot 1020 (as Despair)

Private collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Sydney, 6 December 2012,

lot 11

Private collection, Melbourne

Reference:

Sabatier, B., Francis Bacon. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre graphique de Francis Bacon, JSC Gallery, Paris, 2012, cat.3

From Requiem pour la Fin des Temps published by Georges Visat, Paris 1978 after a painting of the same title of 1976 exhibited at Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris 1977

Estimate: $16000 - 20000

Result Hammer: $19000