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Francis Bacon at the NPG review: a gut punch of a show that's oddly uplifting despite all the darkness
The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis ... his own face (a generous inclusion of photographic portraits of him by other artists reveals Bacon actually ...
Francis Bacon, National Portrait Gallery: the modern master at his most raw and revealing
There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits ... Strangely, given that Bacon “loathed” his own ...
The New York Times15d
Keeper of a Painter’s Secrets? Or a Fantasist and a Trickster?
The Estate of Francis Bacon. DACS ... A few weeks later, Joule was in a bookstore when he saw Bacon’s face glaring out from a book cover. At that moment, Joule recalled, he grasped that Bacon ...
The Malta Independent23d
Francis Bacon’s ‘Portrait of Man with Glasses ???’ to lead Christie’s London Evening Sale
Sylvester's Interviews with Francis Bacon. The mouth is the centrepiece ... an enigmatic backdrop to his anonymous protagonist. The face twists like a chrysalis, capturing a moment of ...
Observer17d
From Schiele to Banksy: What to Watch in London’s Spring Art Auctions
Francis Bacon, Portrait of Man with Glasses III, 1963; estimate: £6-9 million. Courtesy Christie's The painting’s deeply expressive composition presents a man’s face in a state of violent ...
BBC10y
Francis Bacon - Interview
Francis Bacon discusses his work and methods with David Sylvester. In this lauded interview, Bacon reveals his artistic influences, details his tightrope walk between abstract and figurative ...