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Bookmark or Share- 31st ANNIVERSARY OF BACON’S DEATH | Francis BaconToday marks the 31st anniversary of Francis Bacon’s death and seven years since the publication of the Catalogue Raisonné, the definitive compilation of the artist’s completed works.
- Head III - Francis BaconAlley numbers, for example (Alley 106), are those assigned to each painting in the first catalogue raisonné, Ronald Alley and John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (London: Thames & Hudson; New York: Viking Press, 1964). Destroyed paintings. Bacon destroyed many hundreds of paintings.
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- A Performing Dog - Francis BaconThe so-called ‘slashed canvasses’ are not (with one exception, Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, 1964 (64-03)) included in this catalogue. Forty such canvasses, found in Bacon’s studio after he died, are now in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.
- Art - Francis BaconFrancis Bacon is one of the most important and celebrated painters of the last century, best known for his idiosyncratic approach to the human figure. Explore his work and process. Francis Bacon, Study for a Pope I , 1961 (detail)
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