Francis Bacon

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired directly from the artist)

Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1993, lot 32 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above sale)

Sotheby’s, London, 10 February 2015, lot 18 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Madrid, Fundación Juan March and Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Francis Bacon, 1978, no. 13, n.p., illustrated in colour

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art; and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982, 1983, no. 36, p. 69, illustrated in colour; p. 88, illustrated

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Francis Bacon: Paintings, 1985, no. 12, p. 29, illustrated in colour

London, Ordovas, Irrational Marks: Bacon and Rembrandt, 2011, pp. 45 and 69, illustrated in colour

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Francis Bacon: Late Paintings, 2020, n.p. (checklist)

London, National Portrait Gallery and Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Francis Bacon: Human Presence, 2024-25, no. 26, pp. 88-89, illustrated in colour

Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, New York 1983, no. 111, n.p., illustrated in colour

France Borel and Milan Kundera, Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits, London 1996, pp. 74-75, illustrated in colour

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971-92, London 2016, no. 77-02, pp. 1124-25, illustrated in colour

James Cahill, “The face of an angel: Beyond the myth of Francis Bacon,” Times Literary Supplement, no. 6154, 12 March 2021, p. 3, illustrated in colour