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 ...
‘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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Francis Bacon: ‘Human Presence’
The last bit of the show focuses on those closest to him. His friend Henrietta Moraes is all sensual red swirls, fellow artist Lucian Freud is brutish and ape-like, the artist Isabel Rawsthorn 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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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 ...