Portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon

Portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon, 1951

© Estate of Francis Bacon 2007. All rights reserved, DACS

Details

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

198 x 137 cm

Art Fund grant:

£5,000 ( Total: £69,500)

Acquired in:

1980

Vendor:

Lord Rendlesham

This early study is said to have been inspired by a photograph of Franz Kafka. It is one of the first works Bacon executed in Rodrigo Moynihan's studio at the Royal College of Art, where he did most of his painting during the next two years. The following year Freud painted a small portrait of Bacon now in the Tate.

Provenance

Bought by Lord Rendlesham from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Frederickton, New Brunswick.