Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst
Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst - 4/5 Blockbuster show at the ...
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The Unsettling Presence of Francis Bacon
A packed survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London reveals an artist who was the architect of his own myth ...
‘You’re beautiful, darling, and you always will be’: The extraordinary life of Francis Bacon’s muse
One of the artist’s many portraits of Henrietta Moraes, who was known as ‘the Queen of Soho’, is the highlight of a new show ...
Francis Bacon's Turbulent Relationships Shape 'Human Presence'
Francis Bacon’s work doesn’t pull punches. His portraits—distorted, raw and brutally emotional — are on full display at the ...
Francis Bacon at the NPG review: a gut punch of a show that's oddly uplifting despite all the darkness
Francis Bacon at the NPG review: a gut punch of a show that's oddly uplifting despite all the darkness - 4/5 Each canvas is ...
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Francis Bacon – Human Presence – National Portrait Gallery – Sue Hubbard
Francis Bacon is something of a Marmite painter. There are those who love him – his searing honesty and the existential ...
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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Why Francis Bacon's estate is sizzling with outrage
No one summarised the gilded gutter life of Francis Bacon better than the man himself. ‘I might live in squalor, but I don’t see why I should drink filth,’ said the artist, who fuelled ...
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Francis Bacon, National Portrait Gallery: the modern master at his most raw and revealing
Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait ... the Arts Council’s Head VI (1949), in which a hanging tassel torments the ticklish nose of a screaming figure inspired by Diego Velazquez’s Pope Innocent ...
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How Francis Bacon painted the way for cinematic body horror
In a somewhat spooky coincidence, a new Francis Bacon exhibition, Human Presence, opened yesterday at the National Portrait gallery. It includes 55 portraits, inspired by friends, lovers and (in a ...
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Marianne Faithfull: Francis Bacon’s Wild Child – Darren Coffield
When interviewed for my book, the pop icon Marianne Faithfull said she first crossed paths with Bacon after she'd just split ...
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With its first-ever Bacon show, the gallery plans to make 'a real splash with a major British artist'
© Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024 The National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) first Francis Bacon exhibition is an overdue ...