Francis Bacon : Portrait, 1962 Paperback / softback
by Markus Rath
Part of the Schriftenreihe des Museums fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen series
Paperback / softback
Description
Francis Bacon’s portrait of his first partner Peter Lacy is somehow simultaneously attractive and repulsive.
The monumental portrait dating from 1962 was unknown to the public for a long time.
Shortly after it was painted, Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni acquired the work and it remained in private hands for decades.
This is a key work, created at a turning point in Bacon’s oeuvre.
Markus Rath embeds the painting into Bacon’s visual world for the first time.
The English painter reveals a biographical figuration in the portrait, concentrating his compositional arrangement on the stage-like interior and forcing a contrast between the two-dimensional ground and the colour-saturated figure – these are pioneering approaches to composition that shaped his late work decisively.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:130 pages, 39 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:19/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9783422801813
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:130 pages, 39 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:19/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9783422801813
