Francis Bacon

Acquired directly from the artist in 1981 by the present owner 

Marseille, Musée Cantini; and Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Francis Bacon: œuvres récentes, July 1976 – March 1977, no. 12, p. 22, illustrated (Marseille, 1976)

Madrid, Fundación Juan March; and Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Francis Bacon, April – July 1978, no. 9, p. 4, illustrated in colour

London, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon, May – August 1985, no. 93, p. 186, illustrated in colour

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Francis Bacon: Five Decades, November 2012 – February 2013, pp. 60, 186 (earlier state) and 187, illustrated in colour

Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Francis Bacon: Monaco and French Culture, July – September 2016, no. 74, pp. 198 and 233, illustrated in colour

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2012 – 2025 (extended loan)

Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, New York 1983, no. 98, p. 186, illustrated in colour

Eddy Batache, “Francis Bacon and the last convulsions of Humanism,” Art and Australia, vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 1985, pp. 223-24, illustrated in colour

John Russell, Francis Bacon, London 1979, no. 101, p. 175, illustrated

Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Paris 1987, no. 99, p. 86, illustrated in colour

Ernst van Alphen, Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self, London 1992, no. 104, p. 167, illustrated

Andrew Sinclair, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times, London 1993, p. 238 (text)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Picasso, Bacon-Picasso: The Life of Images, 2005, p. 42 (text)

Martin Harrison, “Francis Bacon: Lost and Found,” Apollo, March 2005, no. 7 (earlier state) and no. 8, pp. 94-95, illustrated in colour

David Sylvester, The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon, London 1987, no. 99, p. 131, illustrated (1993 and 2012 reprint); no. 98, p. 151, illustrated in colour (2016 reprint)

Exh. Cat., Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Francis Bacon / Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone, 2013-14, p. 142 (text)

Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon: Late Paintings, 2015, p. 150 (text) (reprinted from Eddy Batache, “Francis Bacon and the last convulsions of Humanism,” Art and Australia, 1985)

Martin Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971-92, London 2016, no. 75-09, pp. 1082 (earlier state) and 1085, illustrated in colour

Majid Boustany, ed., Francis Bacon: Study for a Portrait, Monaco 2019, p. 153, illustrated (installed in Francis Bacon: œuvres récentes, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1977)

Michael Peppiatt, ed., Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words, London 2024, p. 329 (text) (Francis Bacon quoted in his letter to Eddy Batache, 16 July 1982)

Majid Boustany, ed., Francis Bacon: Interwoven Lives, Monaco 2025, pp. 198, 200 (earlier state) and 201, illustrated in colour; p. 199, illustrated (installed in Francis Bacon: œuvres récentes, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1977)