작품 상세

Roy de Maistre 1894-1968 PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BACON (1935) oil on board signed 'R de Maistre' lower right 66 X 43.6CM PROVENANCE Dimitrije Mitrinovic, United Kingdom Trustees of the New Atlantis Foundation, United Kingdom Mrs Gladys MacDermot, United Kingdom By descent Private Collection, Switzerland Important Australian Art, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 24 November 2008, lot 71, illustrated Private Collection, Victoria Corporate Collection, Melbourne Dr Jan Altmann, Melbourne EXHIBITED Roy de Maistre: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1917-1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, May - June 1960, no. 40 LITERATURE Neville Wallis, 'In the Humanist Tradition', The Observer, London, 15 May 1960, p. 20 (illustrated) Daniel Farson, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon, Century, London, 1993, p. 28 (illustrated) Heather Johnson, Roy de Maistre: The English Years, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, p. 26 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DR JAN ALTMANN, MELBOURNE