Perhaps the most famous work of Francis Bacon is the one which brought him his first success as an artist. The 1976 triptych is a large three panel painting (each panel measuring 78 x 58 in, 198 x 147.5 cm), with dense colors and abstract shapes. John Weightman as Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile, Oxford 1983, Dawn Ades and Andrew Forge, Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1985, Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. 1989-90, Daniel Farson, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon, London 1993, Andrew Sinclair, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times, London 1993, Rudy Chiappini (ed. Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. Jahrhunderts. “I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence... as … Dyer appears in over forty Francis Bacon paintings, with as many created following his death as executed during his lifetime. This Francis Bacon painting was sold for $40,000,000 in 2014, at Christie’s New York. Francis Bacon (* 28. Paintings like Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh I (1957) represent a clear break from the artist’s previous monochromatic paintings.In 1961, Bacon settled in South Kensington, London, where he remained for the rest of his life. The death of his lover led to a different approach by Bacon, which would eventually lead to a more reductive artistic approach, which culminated during the 1980s. London and New York 1979, 3rd ed. The piece was sold for $44,882,500 at Sotheby’s New York in 2012. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. Oktober 1909 als Sohn britischer Eltern in Dublin geboren. ', Francis Bacon: Back to Degas: Rothenstein Lecture 2011, Business or pleasure? Following the 1971 suicide of his lover George Dyer, his art became more sombre, inward-looking and preoccupied with the passage of time and death. 'A Note on the Development of Francis Bacon's Painting' 'A Question of Attribution' 'A School or Not a School' 'A Soho soul made of wild brushstrokes' 'A Trail of Human Presence: On Some Early Paintings of Francis Bacon' 'A brush with ebullient despair' 'A critic saves his Bacon' 'A dark prophet' 'A genius? This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992). Heretical successor to a lineage inaugurated by Raphael, defined by Titian and epitomized by Diego Velázquez, Francis Bacon stands alongside art history’s consummate painters of the Catholic Church’s supreme Head and representative of God on earth: the Pope. After his authoritarian father, repelled by his burgeoning homosexuality, threw him out of the family home for wearing his mother’s clothes, Bacon arrived in London in 1926 with little schooling but with a weekly allowance of £3 from his mother. But, in this article, we are not focusing on Francis Bacon's unique art, and his life, but on his paintings. As an artist that emerged in the aftermath of World War II, Francis Bacon explored feelings like pain, fear, and anger in his paintings. 1990, 4th ed. Seine ungeschönten Figuren und gewagten Darstellungen sind oftmals grotesk und emotionsgeladen. In this work, the artist experimented with the application of thick and thin oil paint, brush size, color and hue, even mixing sand into the paint. This silent figure painted in 1960 and cloaked in a rich blood-red crimson is a work that stands as an almost unique example from this seminal series. ), Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Lugano 1993, Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, London 1996, Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996, Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born English figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Ungeachtet von Bacons existentialistischer Einstellung war Bacon höchst charismatisch, einnehmend, belesen und wortgewandt, wie aus den Interviews und Gesprächen mit David Sylvester hervorgeht. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on a single motif; beginning with the 1930s Picasso-informed Furies, moving on to the 1940s male heads isolated in rooms or geometric structures, the 1950s screaming popes, and the mid-to-late 1950s animals and lone figures, the 1960s portraits of friends, the nihilistic 1970s self-portraits, and the cooler more technical 1980s late works. Although Bacon would return to London just two years later, his time on the Continent had a pivotal impact on his life and work. Francis Bacon's paintings are usually “classified” as figurative paintings, while his most famous paintings are known for bold and even grotesque imagery. Infatuated, Bacon chose Dyer as a recurrent subject of his works in the 1960s (some of the most notable ones). The early 1950s saw a period of success and rootlessness following the death of Jessie Lightfoot. We want to see what are the most expensive Francis Bacon paintings sold at auctions. In 1927 Bacon travelled to Berlin (frequenting the city’s homosexual night-clubs) and Paris. With the outbreak of war in 1914, his father took the family to London and joined the Ministry of War; they divided the post-war years between London and Ireland. Since his death his reputation and market value have grown steadily, and his work is among the most acclaimed, expensive and sought-after. Paintings from the period like Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962) were large scale triptychs, a popular format that is in Bacon’s body of work. He also grew dissatisfied with his early works, and destroyed most of the paintings from the period. On a visit to Madrid in 1992, Bacon was hospitalised with pneumonia exacerbated by asthma and died on 28 April. This was the first painting in which Bacon incorporated sheets of paper in the foreground, and in this instance their blankness is both deeply poignant and an essential element in the composition. In seinen Werken setzte er sich vornehmlich mit der Darstellung des deformierten menschlichen Körpers in eng konstruierten Räumen auseinander. International exhibitions became more wide-ranging: Marseilles (1976), Mexico and Caracas (1977), Madrid and Barcelona (1978), Tokyo (1983). The work was sold on May 16th, 2019 at Sotheby's New York during their Contemporary Art Evening Auction for $44,000,000. Bacon took up painting in his late 30s, having drifted as an interior decorator, bon vivant and gambler.

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