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Post War & Contemporary Art 
Francis Bacon, Étude pour un portrait de John Edwards (Study for a Portrait of John Edwards) - Image 1 of 3
Francis Bacon, Étude pour un portrait de John Edwards (Study for a Portrait of John Edwards) - Image 2 of 3
Francis Bacon, Étude pour un portrait de John Edwards (Study for a Portrait of John Edwards) - Image 3 of 3
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Francis Bacon 1909–1992

Étude pour un portrait de John Edwards (Study for a Portrait of John Edwards)

1986
lithograph in colors on Arches sheet: 32 h × 23½ w in (81 × 60 cm) image: 23¾ h × 17¾ w in (60 × 45 cm)
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $15,000
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Signed and numbered to lower edge ‘111/150 Francis Bacon’. This work is number 111 from the edition of 150 co-published by Galerie Lelong, Paris and Yves Peyré, Paris for the literary review L'Ire des Vents, Paris.
provenance: Private Collection, Michigan
literature: Sabatier 20 | Tacou 20

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Nobody has found more wicked energy in contemplating the cage than Francis Bacon… Cages provide areas for Bacon to stage his ferocious meditations on human anguish and savagery, but they also assume more distorted forms, shifting like the spaces within a bad dream.

Charlie Fox

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