Bacon, Francis

British painter and probably the most famous and controversial of the British contemporary artists. Without any formal training, this artist gained immediate recognition in 1945, after Laferve Gallery exhibited his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (Tate Gallery, London).

In the words of the Artist: ‘ (I try) to paint like Velasquez but with the texture of a hippopotamus skin. ‘ His artworks are characteristically painted with strong, jumbled brushwork normally depicting solitary or sad figures.

In 1985, Alan Bowness, the director of the Tate Gallery in London wrote: ‘ Bacon is surely the greatest living painter; no artist in our century has presented the human predicament with such insight and feeling. ´

Selected Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries

2006 - 2007   "Francis Bacon - The Violence of the Real" K20 Kunstsammlung Nordhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 2006   "Bienal del Aire," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber (MACCSI), Caracas 2006   "Summer Exhibition," Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd, London, UK 2006   "Mirada múltiple," Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao 2006   "Francis Bacon," Gagosian Gallery, London, UK 2005   "Francis Bacon: Die Portraits," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2005   "De Picasso a Basquiat," Musée Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris 2005   "Celebración del arte: Medio siglo de la Fundación Juan March," Fundación Juan March, Madrid 2005   "Summer Exhibition 2005," Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2005   "Francis Bacon: Studying Form" Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK 2004   "What´s modern?" Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY 2004   "Hidden Histories," The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands, UK 2004   "Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2004   "Francis Bacon: Le Sacré et le Profane," Musée Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris 2003   Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum. This exhibition is travelled to: Basle, Fondation Beyeler 2003   Valencia, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern 2003   Oporto, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Museu Serralves 2002   "Francis Bacon: Last Paintings" Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK 2002   New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery 2002   Arles, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh-Arles 2002   New York, Marlborough Gallery 2001   Holland, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 2001   Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 2000   Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1999   San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art 1999   New Haven, The Yale Centre for British art. This Exhibition later travelled to: Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth, Museum of Modern Art 1999   London, Tate Gallery, (Works on Paper) 1999   London, Faggionato Fine Arts 1999   Paris, Galerie Lelong 1998   Denmark, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum 1998   London, Hayward Gallery 1998   New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1996   Paris, Centre G Pompidou, MNAM. This exhibition later travelled to: Munich, Haus der Kunst 1993   New York, Marlborough Gallery 1993   Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna 1993   Venice, Museo Correr, XLV Biennale di Venezia 1993   London, Marlborough Fine Art 1992   Madrid, Galeria Marlborough 1990   New York, Marlborough Fine Art 1990   Liverpool, Tate Gallery 1989   Paris, Galerie Lelong 1989   London, Marlborough Fine Art 1989   Washington, Hirshhorn Museum. This exhibition later travelled to: Los Angeles, County Museum; New York, MOMA 1988   Moscow, New Tretyakov, Central House of Artists 1988   Tokyo, Marlborough Fine Art 1987   New York, Marlborough Gallery 1987   Basle, Galerie Beyeler 1987   Paris, Galerie Lelong 1985   London, Marlborough Fine Art 1985   London, Tate Gallery. This exhibition later travelled to: Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie; Berlin, Nationalgalerie 1984   Paris, Galerie Maeght- Lelong 1984   New York, Marlborough Gallery 1984   London, Thomas Gibson Gallery 1983   London, Marlborough Fine Art 1983   Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition later travelled to: Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery 1980   Mannheim, Stadtische Kunsthalle 1980   New York, Marlborough Gallery 1978   Madrid, Fundacion Juan March. This exhibition later travelled to: Barcelona, Fundacio Joan Miro 1977   Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard 1977   Mexico, Museo de Arte Moderno. This exhibition later travelled to: Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo 1976   Marseilles, Musee Cantini 1975   New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1975   Zurich, Marlborough Galerie 1972   Milan, Galleria del Milione 1971   Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. This exhibition later travelled to: Dusseldorf, Stadische Kunsthalle 1970   Turin, Galleria Galatea 1968   New York, Marlborough Gerson Gallery 1966   Milan, Galleria Toninelli Arte Moderna 1966   Paris, Galerie Maeght. This exhibition later travelled to: Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'arte; London, Marlborough Fine Art; Siegen, Oberes Schloss 1965   Hamburg, Hamburger Kunstverein. This exhibition later travelled to: Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art; London, Marlborough Fine Art 1964   Houston, Contemporary Arts Association 1963   London, Marlborough Fine Art 1963   New York, Granville Gallery 1963   New York, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum. This exhibition later travelled to: Chicago, The Art Institute 1962   London, The Tate Gallery. This exhibition later travelled to: Mannheim, Kunsthalle; Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna; Zurich, Kunsthaus; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Musuem 1962   Milan, Galleria Galatea 1961   Nottingham, Nottingham University 1960   London, Marlborough Fine Art 1959   London, Hanover Gallery 1959   Chicago, Richard L.Feigen Gallery 1958   Trin, Galleria Galatea. This exhibition later travelled to: Milan, Galleria dell'Ariete; Rome, Galleria l'Obelisco 1957   Paris, Galerie Rive Droite 1957   London, Beaux-Arts Gallery 1955   London, ICA 1954   London, Hanover Gallery 1953   New York, Durlacher Brothers 1953   London, Beaux-Arts Gallery 1952   London, Hanover Gallery 1951   London, Hanover Gallery 1934   London, Transition Gallery 1928 - 1929   London, Artist's Studio Literature: Books and Catalogs 2005    Sylvestor, David, and Harrison, Martin, 'Francis Bacon: Studying Form' Faggionato Fine Art in association with the Estate of Francis Bacon. 1999    Harrison, Martin, 'Francis Bacon: Paintings from the Estate 1980-1991', Faggionato Fine Art, London 1997    Peppiat, Michael, ‘Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1996    Kundera, Milan, ‘Bacon, Portraits et Auto-portraits', Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1996    Schmied, Wieland, ‘Francis Bacon, Commitment and Conflict', Prestel, Munich 1996    Sollers, Philippe, ‘Les Passions de Francis Bacon', Gallimard, Paris 1994    Deleuze, Gilles, ‘Francis Bacon, Logique de la Sensation' (2 vol), La Différence, Paris 1993    Farson, Daniel, ‘The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon', Century, London 1987    Sylvester, David, ‘The Brutality of Fact, Interviews with Francis Bacon', Thames & Hudson, London 1986    Davies, Hugh and Yard, Sally, ‘Bacon', Abbeville, New York 1983    Leiris, Michel, ‘Francis Bacon, Full Face and in Profile', Phaidon, Oxford 1980    Sylvester, David, ‘Interviews with Francis Bacon: 1962-1979' (New and enlarged edition), Thames and Hudson, London 1975    Trucchi, Lorenza, ‘Francis Bacon', Abrams, New York 1964    Alley, Ronald and Rothenstein, John, ‘Francis Bacon', Thames & Hudson, London 1964    Russell, John, ‘Francis Bacon', Methuen, London

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