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Francis Bacon
프랜시스 베이컨
( Irishㅣ1909-1992ㅣaged 82)
Irish-born British painter
一位生于爱尔兰的英国画家
<Three Studies for Self-Portrait, 1980>
Oil on canvas. © The Estate of Francis Bacon /
DACS London 2015. All rights reserved.
Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1980) depicts
the artist aged 71 with his eyes downcast and
seemingly shut. It has been suggested that
the piece captures the artist’s dialog around
personal mortality, given Bacon’s age
at the time of painting, and his experience
to date with the death of close friends.
Oil on canvas. © The Estate of Francis Bacon /
DACS London 2015. All rights reserved.
Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1980) depicts
the artist aged 71 with his eyes downcast and
seemingly shut. It has been suggested that
the piece captures the artist’s dialog around
personal mortality, given Bacon’s age
at the time of painting, and his experience
to date with the death of close friends.
Oil and pastel on canvas.
Oil on canvas.
♠Contemporary Art Evening Auction
(11 May 2016 / Sotheby’s, New York)
- The work has only previously been
publicly exhibited twice before, at Bacon’s
1971 Paris Grand Palais retrospective, and
in 1993 at London’s Marlborough Fine Art.
Oil paint on canvas.
on a Blue Couch’, 1965>
Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5cm
Manchester Art Gallery Collection
Henrietta Moraes was a companion of
Francis Bacon, who like the artist, frequented
▷The Colony Room Club in Soho, London.
The painting was executed from a John Deakin
photograph of Moraes(헨리에타 모아레스).
On this piece Bacon experimentally applied paint,
sections have smudges of expressive colour,
whilst others have thickly applied paint
where Bacon utilised large brushes.
Bacon is known to have used everyday
materials to apply paint, such as his pullover.
<Flesh 展>
23 September 2016 – 19 March 2017
▷York Art Gallery, UK
Bacon’s Portrait of Henrietta Moraes
on a Blue Couch, and paintings from artists
including Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas,
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
and Circle of Rembrandt,
showcase how the body and flesh have long
been the subject of scrutiny by artists.
Oil on canvas
A lithograph of this painting has been
donated by the Estate to the
▷Terrence Higgins Trust charity auction.
(on 17 March 2016 at Christie`s London)
This donation is made in memory of the late
Christophe Dejean, who was a key member
of staff at The Estate of Francis Bacon and a
long-time supporter of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Over its history the event has raised
£3 million to make a difference to the lives
of people living with and affected by HIV.
Oil paint on Canvas.
Oil on canvas.
<George Dyer Riding a Bicycle, 1966>
oil on canvas
♠ London Calling: Bacon Freud, Kossoff,
Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj 展
(26 July – 13 November 2016)
J. Paul Getty Museum, LA
The show features artists of the “School of
London 런던화파” who during postwar Britain
rejected contemporary art’s preoccupation
with abstraction and conceptualism in favour
of the human figure and everyday landscape.
The Francis Bacon works on display
in this show include:
▷Reclining Woman 1961,
▷ Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne 1966,
▷Study for Portrait II
(after the Life Mask of William Blake) 1955,
▷Study for Head of Lucian Freud 1967,
Portrait of George Dyer Riding a Bicycle 1966,
▷Figure with Meat 1954,
▷Figure in a Landscape 1945,
▷Figures in a Garden 1936,
▷Triptych August 1972 and
numerous oil on paper sketches.
It is a collaboration between Tate and
the J. Paul Getty Museum. It is supported
by an indemnity from the Federal Council
on the Arts and the Humanities.
the J. Paul Getty Museum. It is supported
by an indemnity from the Federal Council
on the Arts and the Humanities.
Oil paint on Canvas
Oil with sand on canvas.
<Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne', 1965> oil on canvas
▷The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts is
offering visitors the opportunity to view
nine Francis Bacon paintings, showcasing
two decades of the late artist’s work.
♠ Seven Bacon paintings, are on display
in their free to view permanent collection:
▷Portrait of R.J. Sainsbury 1955
▷Sketch for a Portrait of Lisa 1955
▷Portrait of Lisa 1956
▷Portrait of Lisa 1957
▷Head of a Man 1960
(catalogue raisonné number: 60-15)
Head of a Man 1960
(catalogue raisonné number: 60-12)
and Head of a Woman, 1960
♠Another two Bacon Paintings are on display
in the new ticketed exhibition
‘Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time’:
( August 2016/ SCVA, Norwich, UK)
▷Study of a Nude c.1952-53,
Three Studies for a Portrait
of Isabel Rawthorne 1965.
Bacon met Giacometti in a café in Paris.
He approached the sculptor and told him
how much he admired his work. Bacon also
liked Giacometti’s lifestyle in that despite
his wealth he continued to work in his
small,cluttered studio near Montparnasse.
His lack of interest in official honours
and success also appealed to Bacon.
Parallels can be made between both artists’ lives
in that neither accumulated many possessions
but were extremely generous to friends and liked to
frequent good restaurants and leave huge tips.
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is an
inspirational public art museum situated on
the campus of the University of East Anglia
in Norwich. Gifted by Sir Robert and
Lady Lisa Sainsbury to the University
in 1973, the Sainsbury Collection includes
the largest group of early paintings
by Francis Bacon in Northern Europe.
During the 1950’s, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury
developed a close relationship with
Francis Bacon, cemented in 1955 when
Lisa commissioned him to make a portrait
of Sir Robert, the only time Bacon agreed to
such a venture. In the same year, Bacon
began a series of portraits of Lisa of which
‘Sketch for a Portrait of Lisa’ is
the earliest surviving example.
