Photo © Grisebach — view this lot on Grisebach ↗Three studies of the male back, 1987
Lithograph · Paper · ed. HC
Grisebach · Sep 13, 2026€25,800 ≈ $29,907 ≈ £22,163Sign up free to see priceImage courtesy Whyte's
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METROPOLITAN TRIPTYCH
Francis Bacon (British, 1909–1992) · 1981
€20,000 hammer
≈ $21,430≈ £17,361
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- Medium
- Etching · Prints & multiples all etching results →As published: “etching with aquatint printed in colours on Guarro wove paper; (3 on one sheet); (no. 3 from an edition of 15 artist's proofs, total edition of 95)”
- Support
- Paper
- Edition
- edition of 15
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed in pencil lower right; numbered lower left
- Category
- Etchings
- Dimensions
- 15 x 24½in. (38.10 x 62.23cm)
- Auction house
- Whyte's
- Sale
- Irish & International Art (875)
- Date
- May 29, 2023
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lot
- 49
- Estimate
- €10,000 – €15,000 (≈ $10,715 – $16,073) (≈ £8,680 – £13,020)
- Source
- Auction house whytes.ie ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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