Sotheby's London to offer Francis Bacon's Study for Head of George Dyer SOTHEBY’S LONDON TO OFFER EXCEPTIONALLY RARE STUDY FOR HEAD OF GEORGE DYER BY FRANCIS BACON
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by Tate for their forthcoming major Francis Bacon retrospective. The exhibition will also travel to the Prado,
Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Study for Head of George Dyer was recently
exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for the exhibition Francis Bacon: Portrait and Heads
for which it was on the cover of the catalogue, as well as at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg in A Guest of
Honour: Francis Bacon und sein Umkreis. Prior to its sale in July, the portrait will be on view at Sotheby’s
New Bond Street Galleries in London.
* Francis Bacon’s Triptych, 1976, sold at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, May 14th for $86,281,000,
setting a record both for the artist at auction and for any Post-War work of art at auction.
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