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Modern and Contemporary Art
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Artist: Francis Bacon, British, 1909–1992
Study of the Sphinx
1953
Oil on canvas
framed: 214.95 × 153.83 × 9.53 cm (84 5/8 × 60 9/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
Gift of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903
1958.3
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
British
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Paintings
Bibliography:
Francis Bacon, exh. cat. (Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2013), 44, 185, no. 12.
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