Modern & Contemporary Discoveries including Works from the former Claude and Georges Pompidou Collection

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, Metropolitan Triptych (Sabatier 4)

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12,000 - 18,000 EUR

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Description

Francis Bacon

1909 -1992

Metropolitan Triptych (Sabatier 4)

signed in pencil (lower right) and numbered 15/99 (lower left)

three etchings with aquatint printed in colours on one sheet

plate (each): 39 x 29.5 cm; 15 ⅜ x 11 ⅝ in.

sheet: 62.5 x 110 cm; 24 ⅝ x 43 ¼ in.

Executed in 1981, this impression is number 15 from the edition of 99 plus 20 proofs, published by Polígrafa, Barcelona.

Private Collection, France

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