HUMAN PRESENCE Francis Bacon celebrating irish women photographs and pastels

photographs and pastels

with their early deaths playing a key role in their posthumous fame

and containing lots of interesting facts and experiments

Purser was an active collector of other artist’s work

or watching Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie soar

HUMAN PRESENCE Francis Bacon celebrating irish women photographs and pastelsFeaturing works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon's life story. As well as the artist's self portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter