Miles Barton Art and Interiors has dated this Francis Bacon Portrait Lithograph to a period later than 1960.
Because Bacon created fewer than 50 distinct lithograph subjects throughout his career, these early Paris editions are highly collectable.
The lithograph derives from one of the many paintings Bacon made of his friend, the artist Isabel Rawsthorne. The original oil painting is held by the Tate Gallery, “He preferred to base such works on photographs of the subject rather than work from life. Intimate knowledge of the sitter was also essential. ‘What I want to do is to distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance’, he said”. (Tate, London)
Coloured lithograph edition printed by Galerie Maeght, Paris
Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris, 1966
This work is unframed. Many of these editions have been cut down for framing but this is offered in the scarcer full original sheet size
Provenance: Private Collection, France
Image size: 32 x 26cm (12 ½ x 10 ¼ in)
Paper size: 54 x 40 cm (21 ¼ x 15 ¾ in)
Miles Barton Art and Interiors has dated this Francis Bacon Portrait Lithograph to a period later than 1960.
British and european pictures and works of art from the 17th to 20th century
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Portrait Lithograph of Isabel Rawsthorne After Francis Bacon, 1966
