BACON FRANCIS: (1909-1992) Irish-born British Painter. Known for his grotesque imagery with works often in triptych ...

BACON FRANCIS: (1909-1992) Irish-born British Painter. Known for his grotesque imagery with works often in triptych or diptych formats. An excellent signed and inscribed exhibition catalogue ''Oeuvres Récentes'' (''Recent works''), Galerie Claude Bernard, January to March 1977, Paris. A good paperback catalogue edition, with preface by Michel Leiris, signed in bold purple ink by Bacon to the front free endpaper (`To Pascal Lucas, with all my best wishes - Francis Bacon´) in French, also adding the date (`Paris 25th January 1977´) in his hand. The 50 pages attractive exhibition catalogue contains over 25 colour images of Bacon´s paintings, including several drop down sheets depicting some of his triptychs. The front, back and inside covers of the catalogue are showing Bacon´s Triptych, 1976 (1976). Attractively framed in a black and silver metal frame and glazed to the front and back allowing the view to front and back catalogue covers, to an overall size of 19 x 13.5 (48 x 34 cm). The catalogue can easily be taken off the frame. EX £2500-3500 On 19th January 1977, a select group of twenty Bacon paintings were exhibited at the Claude Bernard gallery. This now legendary Parisian show attracted such a crowd that it resulted in the police cordoning off the rue des Beaux-Arts to limit the immense crowds coursing towards the gallery. Triptych, 1976 is a large triptych painted by Francis Bacon in 1976. It comprises three oil and pastel paintings on canvas. It is the second most expensive Bacon work ever sold, after Three Studies of Lucian Freud, being auctioned for US $86 million in 2008. Property of Russian businessman Roman Abramovich.