Bacon, Peggy. PORTRAIT OF AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN. Charcoal on paper, not dated. Signed, and with illegible notations at both top and bottom of the sheet. 12 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches. Losses to the sheet edges and corners, and with tape remnants at the edges, some visible on the recto. A lively portrait of a gentleman in a sweater and cap, seated in front of a bar or countertop on which is a bowl of fruit and another object, and behind which is a mirror in which the back of the subject's head is reflected. Provenance, the artist through her son Alexander Brook.
