Michel Leiris, French writer, husband of Louise Leiris (Galerie Louise Leiris). On the wall: Francis Bacon, Portrait of Michel Leiris 1976. Oil on canvas. Today Centre Georges Pompidou. (Donation Louise and Michel Leiris) Paris 1983.
The French writer Michel Leiris stands in a book-lined room in Paris, 1983. Formally dressed in a dark suit, he looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression, his left hand placed in his trouser pocket. To his right hangs the 1976 *Portrait of Michel Leiris* by Francis Bacon. This oil on canvas was later part of a donation made by Leiris and his wife, Louise, to the Centre Georges Pompidou, where it is housed today.
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- Francis Bacon, "Portrait of Michel Leiris", 1976
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