Richard Avedon
Francis Bacon, Painter, Paris, France, April 11, 1979
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May 2, 05:08 PM GTNN
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Richard Avedon
1917-2009
Francis Bacon, Painter, Paris, France, April 11, 1979
gelatin silver print, signed and editioned in ink and stamped on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1979, artist proof 1 of 2 in addition to the numbered edition of 10
image: 20 by 32¼ in. (50.8 by 81.9 cm.)
frame: 29½ by 41½ in. (74.9 by 105.4 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2008
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), pp. 56 and 161
Richard Avedon Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), unpaginated
Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), pp. 24-5
Avedon Warhol (London: Gagosian, 2016), pl. 124
‘I explained the nature of the diptych I wanted to achieve. I’d made a little sketch of what I hoped to do. I asked him to exchange his jacket for my plain, dark sweater. . .Bacon immediately acted the role of the private Bacon with the greatest purity and economy of gesture, and yet it was filled with authentic feeling. Without my saying a word, he understood what my portrait was about, what it called for from him, and he still remained true to himself. No one could act Bacon but Bacon.’
– Richard Avedon Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), unpaginated
A smaller diptych of this image is in the collects ion of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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