Study for Portrait of P.L.
Oil and sand on canvas
78 x 57 in. (198 x 145 cm)
Date Photographed
Titled and dated on reverse
Alley 206
Private Collection, Europe
'Francis Bacon', Marlborough New London Gallery, London, July - August 1963
'Francis Bacon', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 18 October 1963 - 12 January 1964
'Francis Bacon', Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 24 January 1964 - 23 February 1964
'Francis Bacon Gemälde 1945-65', Kunstverein, Hamburg, 23 January 1965 - 21 February 1965
'Francis Bacon: Målningar 1945-1964', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 27 February 1965 - 04 April 1965
'Francis Bacon', Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, April - May 1965
'Francis Bacon', Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 26 October 1971 - 10 January 1972
'Francis Bacon', Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 07 March 1972 - 07 May 1972
'Contemporary Paintings in London', Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, October - December 1962
'Kompas 2: Hedendaagse Schilderkunst uit Londen', Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 21 October 1962 - 09 December 1962
'Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 1954-1964' organised by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation , Tate Gallery, London, 22 April 1964 - 28 June 1964
'An Exhibition of Important 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture', The Lefevre Gallery (Alex Reid and Lefevre Ltd), London, 02 November 1972 - 25 November 1972
Daniel Farson, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon (London: Vintage, 1994). p. 137
Ronald Alley, John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné and Documentation (London: Thames & Hudson, New York: Viking Press, 1964). No. 206; pp. 148, 274; ill. No. 206, unpaged, (b&w)
Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné (London: The Estate of Francis Bacon, 2016). p. 696; ill. p. 697
John Russell, Francis Bacon, Art in Progress (London: Methuen, 1964). ill. unpaged (titled 'Study for a Portrait of P.L. from Photographs', dated '1963')
Lorenza Trucchi, Francis Bacon, trans. by John Shepley (London: Thames & Hudson, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976). ill. No. 81, unpaged (b&w)
Francis Bacon (108 works), Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 26 Oct. 1971-10 Jan. 1972; Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle 7 Mar. 1972-7 May. 1972; exh cat. (Paris: Centre national d'art contemporain, 1971). p. 48; ill. No. 44, p. 119 (b&w)
John Rothenstein, Bacon, The Masters (71) (Paulton: Purnell & Sons, 1967). p. 8; ill. No. X, p. 8 (b&w), unpaged (colour plate)
Mark Brown, ''Art attack: Portrait of Bacon's violent lover for auction'' 8 Apr.. (: The Guardian, , p. 7 2013) ill. p. 7
David Sylvester, 'THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE' (: The Sunday Times Magazine, 1963). ill. p. 17
Bettina Wadia, 'Henry Moore and Francis Bacon' (: Arts Review, 1963). ill. p. 19 (titled 'Study of portrait of P.L. from photographs', dated '1963')
Peter Lacy