A Life Mask Depicting Francis Bacon

Object Description

A Life Mask Depicting Francis Bacon
The plaster cast signed to the reverse ‘Clive Barker’ and inscribed: Francis Bacon Life Mask
Circa 1969

Size: 21cm high – 8¼ ins high / 29cm high – 11½ ins high (with base)

Object History

Ex Private English collection

cf: An example in Gilded Bronze 1969 in the National Portrait Gallery

see: Clive Barker Catalogue Raisonné 1958 – 2000, An Jo Fermon, Marco Livingstone; SKIRA, Italy, 2002 pages: 54, plate 14 (cat.86) and 97, plates 85 and 86

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