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A ‘crucifixion complex’: two newly discovered sketches attributed to Francis Bacon

03/2024 | 1452 | 166

Pages: 225–235

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Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)

Subjects

artists:

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 / Maistre, Roy de / Picasso, Pablo

collectors and dealers:

Sadler, Michael Ernest , Sir

dates:

1930-1939

museums and institutions:

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

subjects:

British art / British drawing / Sketches / Jesus Christ: Crucifixion

subjects:

Portraits / Triptychs

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Sketch, by Francis Bacon. c.1930. Pencil on tracing paper mounted on paper, 25.2 by 16.6 cm. (irregular). (Collection & Image © Hugh Lane Gallery; The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin;).

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11. Sketch for triptych, here attributed to Francis Bacon. c.1933. Pencil. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Roy de Maistre Archive MS2013.10 ARC342; National Art Archive, Gift of Roy de Maistre’s niece, Caroline de Mestre-Walker, 2013).

Attributed works:

12. Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, by Francis Bacon. 1944. Oil and pastel on fibreboard, each panel approx. 94 by 74 cm. (irregular). (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; Tate).

Attributed works:

2. Two pencil sketches, here attributed to Francis Bacon. c.1933. Pencil on paper, 26 by 18.5 cm. (On the half-title page of A. Level: Picasso, Paris 1928; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Roy de Maistre Archive MS2013.10 ARC342; National Art Archive, Gift of Roy de Maistre’s niece, Caroline de Mestre-Walker, 2013).

Attributed works:

3. Sketch of a Biomorph, by Francis Bacon. c.1936. Black, blue and darkbrown ink on lined paper, 16.7 by 12.1 cm. (irregular). (Collection & Image © Hugh Lane Gallery; The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS; Artimage 2024; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin).

Attributed works:

5. Sketch for Portrait of M.E. Sadler [skull], here attributed to Francis Bacon. c.1933. Pencil and possibly wash. (Art Gallery of New South Wales; Roy de Maistre Archive MS2013.10 ARC342; National Art Archive, Gift of, Sydney; Roy de Maistre’s niece, Caroline de Mestre-Walker, 2013).

Attributed works:

7. ‘A candidate for Baptism’, detail of Baptism of Christ, by Piero della Francesca. (From R. Longhi: Piero della Francesca, Milan 1930).

Attributed works:

9. Replica of Portrait of Michael Sadler, by Loris Rey. Bronze. (University College, University of Oxford).

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Francis Bacon and the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory

06/2020 | 1407 | 162

Pages: 472-480

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Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)

Subjects

artists:

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 / Maistre, Roy de / Dorn, Marion

dates:

1920-1929

museums and institutions:

Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Company, Wilton, Great Britain

styles:

Modernism

subjects:

Interior design / Rugs / Carpets

subjects:

British art

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Rug designed by Francis Bacon, and made by the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Company Ltd. 1929. Wool, 212 by 126 cm. (Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation. MB Art Collection; Estate of Francis Bacon; DACS London 2020; photograph Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation/MB Art Collection).

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2. Francis Bacon’s studio at 17 Queensberry Mews West, London. (Repr. in The Studio, August 1930, pp.141).

Attributed works:

3. Gouache, by Francis Bacon. 1929. Gouache, distemper and watercolour on paper, 35.5 by 25 cm. (Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation. MB Art Collection; Estate of Francis Bacon; DACS London 2020; photograph Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation/MB Art Collection).

Attributed works:

4. Rug, designed by Francis Bacon, and made by the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Company Ltd. 1929. Wool, 200 by 120 cm. (Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation. MB Art Collection; Estate of Francis Bacon; DACS London 2020; photograph Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation/MB Art Collection).

Attributed works:

5. Rug, designed by Francis Bacon and made by the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Company Ltd. c.1929. Wool, 208.8 by 122 cm. (Location unknown; Estate of Francis Bacon; DACS London 2020).

Attributed works:

6. Francis Bacon’s Queensberry Mews West Studio, by Roy de Maistre. 1930. Oil on canvas, 60 by 44.5 cm. (The Estate of Francis Bacon Collection).

Attributed works:

7. A room scheme by Francis Bacon, including furniture and a rug designed by him. The rug was made by the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Company Ltd. c.1929. Wool, 240 by 122 cm. ( Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved; DACS London 2020).

Attributed works:

8. Still life, by Roy de Maistre. 1933. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 60.8 cm. (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; courtesy Francis Bacon Estate; Caroline de Mestre Walker).

Attributed works:

9. A room scheme with a rug designed by Francis Bacon and made c.1930–33 by the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory Company Ltd. The materials and dimensions of the rug are unknown. ( British Library Board; HIU.LD48).

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Henri Matisse’s stained-glass window ‘La Rosace’ (1954)

09/2013 | 1326 | 155

Pages: 612-620

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Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)

Subjects

art literature:

Barr, Alfred H., Jr.

artists:

Matisse, Henri

dates:

1950-1959

patrons:

Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich / Rockefeller, Nelson A.

places:

New York / United States

subjects:

Stained glass / Churches / Commissions / Memorials / Cut-paper works

subjects:

Correspondence / Visual sources

Illustrations

Attributed works:

26. Union Church, Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, New York, by Ludwig W. Eisinger (Photograph by the author)

Attributed works:

28. La Rosace, maquette for the stained-glass window in the Union Church, Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, New York, by Henry Matisse (Private collection, London)

Attributed works:

31. Photograph of Henri Matisse sitting in front of his Egyptian hanging in his villa at Vence, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1943-44 (Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris)

Attributed works:

32. Photograph of Matisse's bedroom with the maquette for La Rosace pinned to the wall. 1954 (Rockefeller Archive Center, New York)

Attributed works:

34. Photograph of La Rosace, stained-glass window by Henri Matisse and Paul Bony. Union Church, Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, New York (Rockefeller Archive Center, New York)

Non-western art unattributed:

29. Chinese papercut in the form of a rosette. Sinkiang. From J. Warner: Chinese Papercuts, Hong Kong 1978, p.11

Non-western art unattributed:

30. Detail of an Egyptian hanging. Nineteenth century (Private collection)

Non-western art unattributed:

33. Vase. Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, late seventeenth-early eighteenth century (John D. Rockefeller Jr bequest, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Western art unattributed:

27. Photograph of the interior of the Union Church showing the window prior to Matisse's commission (Rockefeller Archive Center, New York)

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Francis Bacon and Walter Sickert: images which unlock other images

04/2009 | 1273 | 151

Pages: 224-230

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Author:

Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)

Subjects

artists:

Sickert, Walter / Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992

dates:

1930-1939 / 1940-1959

museums and institutions:

City Art Gallery, Leeds, Great Britain / Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain

print:

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992

print:

Sickert, Walter

subjects:

Photographs / Studios (work spaces) / Visual sources / Influence / Collections, Public

subjects:

British painting / Drawings / Composition (artistic arrangement)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

29. Painting, by Francis Bacon. 1950. Canvas, 198.1 by 132.1 cm. (Leeds City Art Gallery).

Attributed works:

30. Conversation, by Walter Sickert. c.1909. Black chalk, heightened with white, pen and ink on buff paper, 33.7 by 23.5 cm. (Royal College of Art, London).

Attributed works:

31. L’Affaire de Camden Town, by Walter Sickert. c.1909. Canvas, 61 by 40.6 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

32. Mornington Crescent nude, contre-jour, by Walter Sickert. c.1907. Canvas, 50.8 by 40.6 cm. (Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide).

Attributed works:

33. Two figures, by Francis Bacon. 1953. Canvas, 152.5 by 116.5 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

34. King George V and Queen Mary, by Walter Sickert. 1935. Canvas, 63.5 by 75.5 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

35. Granby Street, by Walter Sickert. c.1912–13. Canvas, 50.8 by 40.6 cm. (Private collection)

Western art unattributed:

27. Walter Sickert, with his wife Thérèse Lessore, photographed by an unknown photographer in his Broadstairs studio, Kent. Published in the Sketch (2nd March 1938).

Western art unattributed:

28. Francis Bacon photographed in his Reece Mews studio, South Kensington. Date and photographer unknown.

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Walter Richard Sickert’s ‘Echoes’ from the ‘London Journal’

04/2008 | 1261 | 150

Pages: 256-259

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Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)

Subjects

artists:

Sickert, Walter / Gilbert, John

artists:

Sargent, Francesco

dates:

1840-1859 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939

print:

Sickert, Walter

print:

Gilbert, John

print:

Sargent, Francesco

subjects:

Prints / Published illustrations / Magazine covers / Engravings / British painting

Illustrations

Attributed works:

61. La Traviata. Echo of Sir John Gilbert R.A., by Walter Sickert. c.1927–28. Canvas, 42 by 61 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy the Belgrave Gallery, London)

Attributed works:

62. ‘Count de Joyeux, M. de Verboix, and Politia de Champvans’, illustration by John Gilbert for Blythe Hall, published as the cover of the London Journal, week ending 19th July 1856. (British Library, London)

Attributed works:

63. Figures in fancy dress at a banquet, by Walter Sickert. Early 1930s. Canvas, 45.7 by 71.1 cm. (Private collection)

Attributed works:

64. ‘The Banquet at the Vatican’, illustration by John Gilbert for Faust, published as the cover of the London Journal, week ending 7th March 1846. (British Library, London)

Attributed works:

65. Collaboration (after John Gilbert), by Walter Sickert. c.1928–30. Canvas, 40.6 by 61 cm. (Private collection)

Attributed works:

66. ‘Interview between Lady Louvane and Nora’, illustration by John Gilbert for The Star in the Dark, published as the cover of the London Journal, week ending 29th March 1856. (British Library, London)

Attributed works:

67. The seducer (after John Gilbert), by Walter Sickert. c.1928–30. Canvas, 42.5 by 62.5 cm. (Tate, London)

Attributed works:

68. ‘The unexpected return of Rigdon Few’, illustration by John Gilbert for Blythe Hall, published as the cover of the London Journal, week ending 14th June 1856. (British Library, London).

Attributed works:

69. Grover’s Island from Richmond Hill (after Francesco Sargent), by Walter Sickert. c.1932–33. Canvas, 57 by 89 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy of the Fine Art Society, London)

Attributed works:

70. ‘Richmond Hill’, illustration by Francesco Sargent, published as the cover of the London Journal, week ending 22nd July 1848. (British Library, London)

Attributed works:

71. Dublin, from Phoenix Park (after Francesco Sargent), by Walter Sickert. c.1930. Canvas, 43.8 by 73 cm. (Private collection; photograph courtesy of James Hyman Gallery, London)

Attributed works:

72. ‘Dublin, from Phoenix Park’, illustration by Francesco Sargent, published in the London Journal, week ending 1st September 1849, p.409. (British Library, London)

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Newly discovered photographic sources for Walter Sickert’s theatre paintings of the 1930s

04/2006 | 1237 | 148

Pages: 272-276

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Author:

Daniels, Rebecca (Daniels, Rebecca)

Subjects

artists:

Sickert, Walter

dates:

1930-1939

places:

London

print:

Sickert, Walter

subjects:

British painting / Visual sources / Photographs / Theatre (discipline) / Theatre design / Theatres / Actors and actresses

Illustrations

Attributed works:

39. Jessica Tandy and John Gielgud in Hamlet, by Walter Richard Sickert. 1935. Size and present whereabouts unknown.

Attributed works:

40. Jessica Tandy and John Gielgud in Hamlet, performed at the New Theatre, London. 1934. Photograph by Bertram Park. 12.8 by 10 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

41. The Taming of the Shrew, by Walter Richard Sickert. 1937. 99 by 61 cm. (Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage, Cartwright Hall, Bradford).

Attributed works:

43. The Taming of the Shrew, by Walter Richard Sickert. c.1937. 51 by 78 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

45. Marie Tempest, by Walter Richard Sickert. 1935. Size and present whereabouts unknown.

Western art unattributed:

42. Edith Evans and Leslie Banks in The Taming of the Shrew, performed at the New Theatre, London, 1937. Photograph by Houston Rogers. 16.5 by 10 cm. (Private collection).

Western art unattributed:

44. The Taming of the Shrew, performed at the New Theatre, London. 1937. Photograph from The Times (24th March 1937), p.14.

Western art unattributed:

46. Marie Tempest. Photograph from the Daily Telegraph (29th May 1935), p.15.

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