Live Auction 7956Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007)
Lot 248

R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007)

Francis Bacon

Closed17 February 2011

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GBP 30,000

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R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007)
Francis Bacon
titled, inscribed and dated '1969 F.B. for John from Sholto' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas board
11 7/8 x 10in. (30.2 x 25.4cm.)
Executed in 1969

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Bacon is special in my life...although I was never as close to the wicked witch as they were and he badmouthed us all. He got under my skin before I came to England. In NY in the early fifties I'd already decided that Bacon and Balthus were my favourite post-war painters and I still feel that today... We lived in the same district for his last twenty-five years and gossiped in the supermarket and streets' (Kitaj, quoted in R. Morphet, "Kitaj interviewed by Richard Morphet", in R.B. Kitaj: A Retrospective, London 1994, p. 44).