There are no buts! This small exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath has considered every angle and every detail and the result truly is a bijou gem
Holburne Museum, Bath 24 ...
The raw power of the works in this show, in which we see Bacon’s fascination with animals and with the animalistic side of humankind, will stay with you long after you leave
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The largest exhibition of Bacon’s paintings ever held in the north of England, it takes as its curatorial framework the spaces the artist painted around his famously brutal...
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 17 November 2012–24 February 2013
Curatorial Director, ANTHONY BOND, curator of , describes his exhibition for Studio International
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) at Tate Britain heralds the artist’s centenary in 2009. It is the first retrospective since 1985, enabling a re-assessment of his work, a...
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
26 September-10 December 2006
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts seems like a fitting starting point for...
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 4 June-4 September 2005 Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 14 October 2005-15 January 2006
The loss of faith in humanity in the ...
... the works, depicting Freud, Francis Bacon, Michael Andrews and Frank Auerbach, and inspired by John Deakin’s well-known photograph of the School of London painters lunch...
... will look at the impressionists … Bonnard, I always look up to him. Or I will take inspiration from the colour palette of Francis Bacon. It really depends on the paintin...
... Francis Bacon’s spectrally disembodied portraits. And I can think of many artists whose work is undoubtedly indebted to his bold blend of science and art, deployed with ...
... gallery places her work alongside that of the grand matriarch of the grotesque and harrowing, Leonora Carrington, and the legendary and tormented big drinker, Francis Baco...
... that really dazzles. There are more oblique refences to artists such as Adnan and Francis Bacon (1909-92), for example, and others mentioned in the exhibition texts and mo...
... in common with Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud but without the edge of cruelty and despair, and with more beauty and hope.
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In 2004, Shamma won fourth prize ...
... in the tradition of paintings like those of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud, both of whom had an influence on me as a student.
LW: All the paintings in this show have chil...
... feet], then to the folded hands and finally to the head. Then the eye reverses the process back to the feet. Details of clothing and setting are taken in on the way.”8 A...
... century. In a sparsely populated space, visceral representations of the self by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) and Francis Bacon (1909-92) sit alongside a distorted portrait of ...
... British Arts movement. There are works by Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon and Duncan Grant, for instance. There are also works by Keith Piper, Claudette Johnson and Denzil ...
... shown in New York and London, and he became something of a hero to artists such as Francis Bacon, Auerbach and Kossoff. They recognised the passion, energy and freedom in ...
... existentially minded milieu of Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, then the Technicolor candy kingdom of swinging London. One photograph shows partygoers lolli...
... of his friend Francis Bacon, and points to the Renaissance technique of non-finito that Freud deploys here. By deliberately leaving these works unfinished, Freud exposes t...