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Francis Bacon; General items from his Studio, inc

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Francis Bacon; General items from his Studio, including Peter Beard, black and white photographic print of male and female African figures inscribed on reverse "PSS MANY REGRETS THIS RUSH - I am off this minute to Tonj in the Sudan for two weeks, best to all etc. PB": Folded in two with a bad score and tear across the front. 11½" x 9¼". Photographs by Peter Beard, the American photographer and writer, were used extensively by Bacon, including wild life and other African scenes.
Six various pocket diaries, Playboy 1969, 1973, and 1974, Knightsbridge Sporting Club Diary 1969 and 1976 and a Curzon House (Crockfords) Pocket Diary 1973. None of these have any entries.
Working document pages 219 and on the reverse 220 of a book on Radiography, (this is almost certainly a page from Positioning in Radiography,) depicting a female figure with x-rays of her spine. Such images were frequently referred to by Francis Bacon in his work)
Four fragments some with notes in Bacon's hand.
Provenance: The Robertson Collection

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