A rediscovered painting by Francis Bacon is to be shown for the first time in over 50 years at next month’s contemporary art sales in London. The 1955 painting of Pope Pius X11 seated on a golden throne,cheap jordans online, his hand raised in some enigmatic gesture, was last exhibited in 1962?and sold the following year in Turin. Since then it has been locked away in a very private collection.
Even the extensive, 10-year research conducted by art historian, Martin Harrison for the catalogue raisonne of all the artist’s works, published last year,cheap authentic jordans, could not uncover its whereabouts and lists the painting,cheap jordans free shipping,?Head with Raised Arm,cheap air jordans,?as ‘location unknown.’ ?It is the only one of Bacon's 584 paintings which Harrison could not locate.?Christie’s is withholding the identity of the seller,cheap wholesale jordans, but speculation will be centred around the descendants of Italian collectors, such as film producer,http://www.ics-spielplatz.de/index.php?site=news_comments&newsID=12cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, Carlo Ponti, or car manufacturer,jordan shoes, Gianni Agnelli, who bought examples of Bacon’s work in Turin at that time.
Bacon’s Papal portraits are considered his finest achievements. They are, writes his biographer, Michael Peppiatt, "not only the centrepiece of all his paintings of the 1950s,http://www.soundpoolradio.de/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=68066cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, but a centrepiece of the whole of 20th-century art."
They began after he saw a reproduction of Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X?in 1946 and became obsessed with it,cheap retro jordans, attracted by the idea that an all-powerful religious leader could also be a tragic figure, terrified by the human situation.
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