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Francis Bacon: Portrait, 1962

By (author) Markus Rath

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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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Publisher | De Gruyter
Published date | 19 Feb 2024
Language | German
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 130
Dimensions | 200 x 130 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 224g
ISBN | 978-3-4228-0181-3
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