Francis Bacon - Art Card: Painting, 1946. (Hand Signed and inscribed by Francis Bacon), 1972

Francis Bacon - Art Card: Painting, 1946. (Hand Signed and inscribed by Francis Bacon), 1972

Offset lithograph postcard (Hand Signed & inscribed by Francis Bacon)

Offset lithograph postcard, hand signed ca. 1972
Boldly signed and inscribed in marker by Francis Bacon in his inimitable hand on the verso
This card was published by the Museum of Modern Art, and depicts Francis Bacon's iconic 1946 oil and tempera on canvas work entitled "Painting". The work remains in the permanent collection of MoMA. Bacon described this painting as his most unconscious work, originally intended to be a landscape with a bird but evolving into this final composition.
This card has been elegantly floated with plastic pocket corners to reveal all four corners, with plexiglass on the front, as well as plexiglass on the back to display the signature and inscription, and it is held in a museum quality painted gray wood frame.
Measurements:
Framed
13 inches (vertical) by 11.25 inches (horizontal) by 2 inches
Signed Postcard:
5.75 inches (vertical) by 4 inches (horizontal)
Francis Bacon (1909–92) was a maverick who rejected the preferred artistic style of abstraction of the era, in favour of a distinctive and disturbing realism. Growing up, Bacon had a difficult and ambivalent relationship with his parents – especially his father, who struggled with his son’s emerging homosexuality.
This contributed to a troubled childhood; he ran away from school, and subsequently drifted through the late 1920s and early 30s in London, Berlin and Paris, living off his allowance and occasional jobs, and dodging the rent. When in London, he lived in the epicentre of the bohemian scene; a regular in Soho, he led a hedonistic life.
From the mid-1940s his work met with critical success, establishing his reputation. Today, he is recognized as one of the most important painters of the twentieth century.
-Courtesy Tate Gallery