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网页As of November 2017, this website now contains reference images and information on all 584 numbered works published in Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, 2016, including the exhibition history of each painting. The paintings can be viewed by …
Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953
网页1999年1月17日 · In the great painting from the Des Moines Art Center, the Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Bacon updates the seventeenth‑century image by transforming the Spanish artist’s confident client and relaxed leader into a screaming victim.
Finding Order in Chaos - Francis Bacon
网页4 天之前 · Books and magazines on subjects including art, sport, crime, history, photography, cinema, bullfighting, wildlife and the supernatural were found in precarious piles on the studio floor and highlight the eclectic nature of Bacon’s influences.
7 Reece Mews - Francis Bacon
网页After a decade of painting in temporary spaces, Francis Bacon moved into 7 Reece Mews in October 1961. ‘The moment I saw this place I knew that I could work here,’ enthused Bacon about the modest property.
1950s | Francis Bacon
网页1950s. Bacon memorably described the gaunt figure in Vincent Van Gogh’s The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, 1888, as a ‘phantom of the road’. Two journeys to South Africa, but especially The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, triggered fundamental changes in Bacon’s work in the 1950s.
31st ANNIVERSARY OF BACON’S DEATH | Francis Bacon
网页2023年4月27日 · Today marks the 31st anniversary of Francis Bacon’s death and seven years since the publication of the Catalogue Raisonné, the definitive compilation of the artist’s completed works.
CAPTURING THE MOMENT – TATE MODERN EXHIBITION - Francis …
网页2023年2月16日 · Capturing the Moment is an exhibition that explores how the brush and the lens influenced some of the greatest artists in modern history, offering visitors the opportunity to discover more about both mediums.
1970s | Francis Bacon
网页1970s. The 1970s began with a tragedy. Two nights before the opening of Bacon’s retrospective at the Grand Palais, Paris in 1971, George Dyer, who had accompanied his friend to the event, died from a drug and alcohol overdose in his hotel room.
Biography 1920s - Francis Bacon
网页Biography 1920s. Bacon’s emerging homosexuality severely strained relations with his family and, by his own account, he was expelled from the household in 1926, after Major Bacon caught his son trying on his mother’s underwear.
CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ FOCUS: SELF-PORTRAIT, 1973. | Francis …
网页2023年2月22日 · Bacon began to paint self-portraits, perhaps to confront his own mortality. In this article we explore one of the most compelling of his self-portraits; Self-Portrait, 1973, which bears the hallmarks of these themes; mortality, legacy and time.