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Three Studies for a Self-Portrait, 1979–80, 37.5 x 31.8cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three Studies for a Self-Portrait is an oil-on-canvas triptych painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon. Two of paintings are signed and dated 1979, and the third signed and dated 1979–1980.
Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86. Oil on canvas, each panel 198cm x 147.5cm. Marlborough Fine Art, London. Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 is a triptych painted between 1985 and 1986 by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon. It is a brutally honest examination of the effect of age and time on the human body ...
Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards 1984 Catalogue Raisonné Number 84-05 Oil and Aerosol Paint on Canvas 198.3 x 148cm (78 x 58 in) Private collection Features Bacon's companion and sole heir, John Edwards. Sold by Pierre Chen at Christie's in 2014 for $80.8 million. [13] [14] Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 1985-1986
The Three Studies are generally considered Bacon's first mature piece; [3] he regarded his works before the triptych as irrelevant, and throughout his life tried to suppress their appearance on the art market. When the painting was first exhibited in 1945 it caused a sensation and established him as one of the foremost post-war painters.
Three Studies for a Self Portrait (Oil on canvas, 35 cm × 30 cm (13 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 12 in), Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu) [77] Triptych 1983 (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Juan Abelló ) ( large triptych ) [ 78 ]
Three Studies for the Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963. Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes is an oil-on-canvas 1963 triptych by the Irish-born British figurative painter Francis Bacon. It is one of a series of portraits he painted of his friends, at a time when his art was becoming more personal.
Self-portraiture, or Autoportraiture is the field of art theory and history that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of self-portraits. [1] [2] [3] Emerging in Antiquity and becoming popular from the Renaissance as an artistic practice, as a specific field of study, self-portraiture is recent ...
Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969 oil-on-canvas [1] triptych by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud.It was sold in November 2013 for US$ 142.4 million, which at the time was the highest price attained at auction for a work of art when not factoring in inflation.