On this day, October 28, 1909, Francis Bacon was born in Dublin and would grow into one of the twentieth century’s most provocative painters. His stark, distorted portraits and famous triptychs ...
Francis Bacon spent the first 16 years of his life growing up on a stud farm in Ireland surrounded by horses and dogs. For Bacon, an asthmatic, danger lurked in animal fur, and forever after the ...
“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across his career, ...
In August of 1998, a team of curators, conservators, and archaeologists arrived at 7 Reece Mews, a small flat in London’s South Kensington neighborhood, to start work on the month-long task of ...
A photograph, printed in Vogue in 1952, captures Francis Bacon in his element: bare-chested, staring intently and clutching the fleshy remains of something slaughtered. To paint the human figure, the ...
Francis Bacon, “Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres” (1983), oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm; Collection Berardo, Lisbon; © The Estate of Francis Bacon/All rights ...
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