Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon: Paintings published by HENI is the first book to reproduce all 584 authenticated Francis Bacon paintings in a single volume. The paintings are accompanied by quotes from Bacon and others, and a discussion of selected key paintings.

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'The Brutality of Fact' by ART-O-MATIC https://t.co/YqtyY46Nd8 via @YouTube

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The Hugh Lane Gallery, featuring Francis Bacon's studio, will close its doors for refurbishment on 28th September 2025. The Gallery will be closed for 3 years, to allow for its 1930s wing to be upgraded as part of a major investment to reshape Parnell Square North.

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In our latest video, David Clarke and Deborah Rhodes talk about meeting Francis Bacon while working at the Tate Gallery. David took press photographs of Bacon for his 1985 Tate Gallery retrospective.

Full interview: https://t.co/I0wwbAwPL4

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It is with great sadness that we report that Professor Sir Brian Clarke, Executor and Chairman of The Estate of Francis Bacon, died on Tuesday 1stJuly 2025.

Full biography: https://t.co/czZP56Liu6

(Photo: Brian Clarke in his studio, 2011, by Martin Booth)

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"The ringed, downcast eyes also echo those of Picasso’s ‘primitive’ heads of the Les Demoiselles d’Avignon period, 1906–07"

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p544

Painting: Head II, 1958
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"Leaf from book, Jacques Penry, How to Judge Character from the Face, London: Hutchinson, 1952 (Chapter A, plates A8-All).
Noses featured significantly in Bacon's facial topographics. This book was also an alternative source of his directional arrows."

Incunabula p.32

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"...extraordinary vigour and intense colours<...> it may have been that he was invigorated by the arrival in his life of a new lover and muse, George Dyer."

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p736
Painting: Study for Portrait (with Two Owls), 196
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"The horizontal divisions that delineate the floor, couch and wall are fundamentally the same as those he had introduced in Lying Figure, 1959 (59 ‑08)."

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p882
Painting: Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1968
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"Auerbach was one of Bacon's closest friends in London's art community: a section taken from the catalogue of Bacon's 1962 Tate Gallery retrospective can be discerned at the top of this cutting."

Incunabula p.105
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"... painted specifically as an illustration for her book, Peintres aux fourneaux. It was reproduced together with Bacon’s recipes for Steak and Kidney Pie and Syllabub."

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p1150
Painting: Side of Beef, 1978

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"The isolation of the heads on a lilac ground, with only the neck painted and the absence of shoulders, is highly unusual."

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p872

Painting: Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1968
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Quote From: David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon (Thames & Hudson, 2008)⁠
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Edward Onslow, a close friend and confidant, shares candid reflections that reveal a portrait of the artist beyond the canvas; his relationships, values and personality.

Full Interview: https://t.co/T5WReeXnyL

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"Painted shortly after the Van Gogh series and stylistically consistent with it, the red and green flicks of the grasses refer back to Bacon’s landscapes"

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p512
Painting: Figure in a Landscape (Miss Diana Watson), 1957

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Step into the lesser-known side of Francis Bacon’s life — beyond the studio. A rare glimpse into the social world that shaped one of the 20th century’s most provocative artists.

Full Interview: https://t.co/kLyq5kVDEP

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"...ostensibly inconsequential details encapsulated the atmosphere of his cluttered environment - that they were metaphors for his working process."

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p1122

Painting: Triptych, 1977
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The wonderful Edward Onsloe (previously Ted Westfallen) describes his friendship with Bacon, sparked in the Soho gambling den where he worked and where Bacon was a patron, and how he came to be the subject of Study for Portrait (1969).⁠

Out now: https://t.co/xFmF4Hkv5O

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Bacon may have erased the identity of individuals in order to concentrate on limb positions or other aspects of a composition.

Incunabula p.197

Photograph of Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud (Sideways), 1971

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