Triptych
Date
1967
Artist
Francis Bacon, British, b. Dublin, Ireland, 1909–1992
Provenance
Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York, to 8 November 1968
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 8 November 1968-6 March 1972
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
Exhibition History
MARLBOROUGH-GERSON GALLERY, New York. "Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings," 11 November-7 December 1968, no. 10, color ill. p. 41.
PARIS GALERIES NATIONALES DU GRAND PALAIS. "Francis Bacon," 26 October 1971-10 January 1972, no. 75, ill. p. 35.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 1007, pp. 648-49; pp. 660-61.
TATE GALLERY, London. "Francis Bacon," 22 May-18 August 1985, no. 53, color ill. TOUR: STAATSGALERIE STUTTGART, 19 October-5 January 1986; NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin, 7 February-31 March.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Francis Bacon," 12 October 1989-7 January 1990, no. 33, color ill. TOUR: LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 11 February-29 April; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 24 May-28 August.
BRITISH COUNCIL, London. [org. ONLY**} "Francis Bacon," no. 53, color ill. p. 152. TOUR: CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, 27 June-14 October 1996, no. 17, pp. 32-33; HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, 4 November-31 January 1997.
HUGH LANE GALLERY OF MODERN ART, Dublin. "Francis Bacon in Dublin," 1 June- 31 August 2000, no. 34, color ill. pp. 102-104.
KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN, Düsseldorf. "Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real," 16 September 2006-7 January 2007.
TATE BRITAIN, London. "Francis Bacon," 11 September 2008-4 January 2009, color ill. pp. 232-233. TOUR: MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO, Madrid, 3 February-19 April; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, 18 May-16 August.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
Published References
UNSIGNED. Time (29 November 1968): p. 82.
BATTCOCK, GREGORY. "Francis Bacon: First Major show in New York Gallery," Arts Magazine (November 1968): p. 47.
GAVING, LAWRENCE. "Pigment Figment," Art News 67/8 (December 1968): p. 43.
PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "Francis Bacon's New Paintings," Art International 12/10 (December 1968): p. 37.
ASHTON, DORE. "New York Commentary," Studio International 177/907 (January 1969): p. 46.
UNSIGNED. Die Weltrunst (January 1969): p. 11.
RUSSELL, JOHN. "Francis Bacon at Sixty," Art in America 1 (January-February 1970): p. 11.
GIBSON, MICHAEL. "The Ambigous Appeal of Francis Bacon's Work," International Herald Tribune (30-31 October 1971): p. 7.
RUSSELL, JOHN. Francis Bacon (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1971): pp. 133, 174, 227.
HOBHOUSE, JANET. "Francis Bacon," Arts Magazine, 46/4 (February 1972): p. 38.
SECREST, MERYLE. "Hirshhorn: Gift to the Nation," Washington Post (11 March 1972): pp. C1, C5.
ROTHENSTEIN, JOHN. Modern English Painters: Wood to Hockney (New York: St. Martins Press, 1974): p. 168.
TRUCCHI, LORENZA. Francis Bacon (Milan: Fratelli Fabbris Editori, 1975).
COURTHION, PIERRE. "Le plus grand musee de sculpture du monde: La Collection Hirshhorn," XXe siecle 45 (December 1975): p. 32.
SPENDER, STEPHEN. Modern Masters: T.S. Eliot (New York: Viking Press, 1976): p. 55.
QUANTRILL, MALCOLM. "From London: Some Anglo-Saxon Intentions and Responses," Art International 22/2 (February 1978): p. 87.
SCHIFF, GERT. Images of Horror and Fantasy (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978): pp. 87-90.
HYAMS, BARRY. Hirshhorn: Medici from Brooklyn (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979): p. 22.
LAISSOE, ROLF. "Francis Bacon & T.S. Eliot," Hafnia Copenhagen Papers in the History of Art 9 (1983): pp. 113-30.
DELEUZE, GILLES. "Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation," Flash Art (May 1983): pp. 8-16.
LEIRIS, MICHEL. Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile (Phaidon, 1983): pl. 47, p. 23.
PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "Francis Bacon's Studio," Connoisseur (September 1984): pp. 88-89.
PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "Francis Bacon," Kunst og Kultur 1 (1985): fig. 6, ill., pp. 54-55.
SCHMIED, WIELAND. Francis Bacon: Vier Studien zu einem Portrat (Berlin: Frolich & Kaufmann, 1985): p. 46.
TWITCHELL, JAMES. Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985): pp. 14-15.
DAVIES, HUGH and SALLY YARD. Francis Bacon (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986): p. 59.
MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, INC. Francis Bacon: Paintings of the Eighties (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1987): pp. 12-13.
LESSOE, ROLF. "Francis Bacon's Crucifixions and Related Themes," Hafnia Copenhagen Papers in the History of Art 11 (1987[printed August 1988]): pp. 7, 11.
"Francis Bacon: Paintings," Moscow, The Central Hall of Artists, 23 September-6 November 1988 (The British Council and Marlborough Galleries, 1988): p. 24.
SOKOLOV, MIKHAIL. "Tragedies without a Hero: The Art of Francis Bacon," Art Monthly (November 1988): pp. 3-5.
PEPPIATT, MICHAEL. "An Interview with Francis Bacon: Provoking Accidents, Prompting Chance," Art International 8 (Autumn 1989): ill., p. 33.
PHILLIPS, EDWARD. "Our Bodies, Our Hells," Washington Post (13 October 1989): p. 57.
FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Francis Bacon: An Old Master of the Elusive," Art News 91/6 (Summer 1992): pp. 48, 50.
VAN ALPEN, ERNST. Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self (London: Reaktion Books, 1992): pp. 68-71.
CORK, RICHARD. "Interview with Francis Bacon," Francis Bacon: Paintings 1981-1991 (New York, Madrid: Marlborough Galleries, 1992).
SINCLAIR, ANDREW. Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993): pp. 208-209, 286-287.
BOIME, ALBERT with PAUL ARDEN. The Odyssey of Jan Stussy in Black and White: Anxious Visions and Uncharted Dreams (Los Angeles: Jan Stussy Foundation, 1995): p. 141.
D[...], PHILLIPPE. "Francis Bacon, la chair de l'histoire," Le Monde (26 June 1996).
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LEVY, PAUL. "British Artists Teach French a Lesson," Wall Street Journal (28 June 1996).
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FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Scrambled Heads and Bacon," The Observer (30 June 1996).
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COHEN, DAVID. "The Dualist," Art in America (January 1997): pp. 64-70.
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SYLVESTER, DAVID. Francis Bacon: The Human Body (Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998): p. 38.
DUFFY, JEAN. Reading Between the Lines: Claude Simon and the Visual Arts (Liverpool University Press, 1998): pp. 124-7.
BARTLETT, JENNIFER. "A Peaceable Kingdom," The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, The Artist As Writer, ed. by Lorin Cuoco (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999): p. 59.
BRIGHTON, ANDREW. Francis Bacon (Princeton University Press, 2001): pp. 22-23.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 128, p. 143.
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School
School of London
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.16
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
panel A: 78 1/4 × 58 3/8 in. (198.8 × 148.3 cm) panel B: 78 1/4 × 58 1/4 in. (198.8 × 148 cm) panel C: 78 1/8 × 58 1/4 in. (198.4 × 148 cm)
