Painting trauma: Francis Bacon’s suicide paintings
Francis Bacon, a painter known for his obsession with the male figure, painted the last moments of his lover's life as he ...
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Keeper of a Painter’s Secrets? Or a Fantasist and a Trickster?
Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure. The Great Read Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of ...
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Before David Lynch, there was Francis Bacon
In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992 ... a person with matted hair and a filthy face. But the context was perfectly calibrated. Lynch wanted it to be terrifying ...
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Francis Bacon at the NPG review: a gut punch of a show that's oddly uplifting despite all the darkness
The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon ... complexity of grief. Bacon considered portraiture the greatest genre of painting, for its ability ...