Lot 181
  • 181

Francis Bacon

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Second version of the Triptych 1944 (S. 24)
  • Lithograph
  • each image: 624 by 463mm 24 5/8 by 18 1/4 in
  • each sheet: 753 by 560mm 29 5/8 by 22 1/8 in
The complete set, comprising three lithographs printed in colours, 1989, each signed in pencil, numbered 8/60 (total edition includes 8 artist's proofs), on Arches wove paper, published by Michel Achimbaud for the Librairie Séguier for IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris, each framed

Condition

Presumably the full sheets, in good condition, the sheet edges verso taped to the over-mount with brown tape, each framed.
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