Francis Bacon, artist and art
Born Oct 28 1909, Birth Dublin, Ireland.
Died Apr 28 1992 deathMadrid, Spain.
At seventy the artist appears ageless, not a day older than in his first self-portrait, painted in 1956. Bacon had begun to make close-up portraits in 1961, filling canvases measuring about a square foot with heads slightly smaller than life-size. Bacon has said "art is completely a game by which man distracts himself," and "the artist must really deepen the game in order to be worth anything at all.
Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
Auctions & Auction Results
From leading auction houses worldwide, Francis Bacon on Mutualart
Figure Study I
Francis Bacon’s work has to do with the human body, sex, violence and strong emotions…
Three Studies for a Crucifixion
Study of a Baboon.
Estate
50 Works in the TATE Collection
For nearly 50 years, until his death in 1992 at 82, Bacon worked the fault lines dividing abstraction and representation and sometimes photography, where many contemporary painters from subsequent generations have staked claims of one kind or another…
