In today's Artnet Bulletin: a Bacon / de Kooning exhibition, a massive Beatles museum, and a large Anselm Kiefer work finds a ...
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Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes win inaugural Bacon Awards
The $44,800 prize fund is being split between the two artists.
This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...
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 ...
The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There’s an ...
Applying "Knowledge is Power" to modern theories of science, education, and social reformAuthor: SHUN SUZUKIIntroduction—Why ...
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, “Self-Portrait” (1978), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (Private Collection, © The Estate of Francis Bacon, all rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS ...
“I loathe my face,” Francis Bacon told art critic David Sylvester in 1971, and that antipathy is on full display in two recently discovered self-portraits by the British painter. Before being ...
Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for figurative and occasionally unsettling portraits, painted subjects ranging from disfigured friends to screaming popes. One of his greatest muses, however ...
“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 the spring of 1949, the press baron Viscount Rothermere gave a ball that defied Britain’s postwar decline. The men wore white tie, the women their family jewels. The Queen Mother was there, and so ...
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