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Original etching and aquatint in colours, very nice proof printed on Arches paper signed and numbered from an edition at 120 copies, issued from a portfolio "Requiem pour la fin des temps" from Eddy Batache.
Size of paper : 65 x 50 cm
Size of the print : 29,5 X 26
Very good condition.
Francis Bacon met Michel Leiris in 1965 and the following years made several portraits of his friend writer and ethnologist, in different techniques (paintings, lithographs, engravings) ; portraits that David Sylvester, critic and friend of the painter will consider as "hypnotic images (which) are both portraits and rebuilding of the architecture of the human head".
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Size of paper : 65 x 50 cm
Size of the print : 29,5 X 26
Very good condition.
Francis Bacon met Michel Leiris in 1965 and the following years made several portraits of his friend writer and ethnologist, in different techniques (paintings, lithographs, engravings) ; portraits that David Sylvester, critic and friend of the painter will consider as "hypnotic images (which) are both portraits and rebuilding of the architecture of the human head".
SOLD Other prints available by BACON
Francis Bacon, oeuvres récentes
Catalogue of an exhibition Francis Bacon to the Gallery Claude Bernard in Paris in 1977. About twenty paintings is here reproduced, triptychs, self-portraits, portraits, (a very beautiful "writing man reflected in a mirror" of 1976). Very beautiful foreword of Michel Leiris. This exhibition Bacon has been also shown in the Marlborough Gallery of London. Back
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Catalogue of an exhibition Francis Bacon to the Gallery Claude Bernard in Paris in 1977. About twenty paintings is here reproduced, triptychs, self-portraits, portraits, (a very beautiful "writing man reflected in a mirror" of 1976). Very beautiful foreword of Michel Leiris. This exhibition Bacon has been also shown in the Marlborough Gallery of London. Back
BACON briography