Photographies
Photographies
Photographs from the collection of the Foundation of Estelle and Hervé Francès
RICHARD AVEDON | FRANCIS BACON, ARTIST, PARIS, 4-11-79
Auction Closed
November 8, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
RICHARD AVEDON
1923 - 2004
FRANCIS BACON, ARTIST, PARIS, 4-11-79
tirage argentique
signé et numéroté '8/10' au feutre et cachet du photographe au verso
édition 8/10
silver print
signed, numbered '8/10' in felt pen, copyright credit and reproduction stamps on verso
edition 8/10
21 ¾ x 34 in. ; 55,2 x 86,3 cm
Acquired directly from the artist, November 10, 1980
Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art, May 14, 2009, lot 190
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), pl. 214
Richard Avedon, Evidence 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), pp. 56, 1661
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Richard Avedon Portraits (New York, 2002), n. p.
This famous double portrait of Francis Bacon by Richard Avedon corresponds to the sequential narrative of the subjects painted by Bacon that often are composed in diptychs or most famously in triptychs. Other prints of this images are in prestigious collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.