“I have always been very moved by pictures about slaughterhouses and meat,” the painter Francis Bacon said to an interviewer in 1962. He regarded meat with fellow-feeling. “If I go into a butcher’s ...
This episode suggests ruthless careerism, but as the Pulitzer Prize–winning critics Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan write in their new biography, Francis Bacon: Revelations, the reality turned out to be ...
The modern artist, Bacon said, must “unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently”, otherwise art is simply “a game by which man distracts himself”. By Johanna ...
Francis Bacon – Man and Beast review: Post-Holocaust surrealism that still feels raw and challenging
Francis Bacon’s ‘Fragment of a Crucifixion’, 1950, photo by Hugo Maertens, and ‘Second Version of Triptych 1944’, 1988, photo by Prudence Cuming Associates ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the ...
WHEN, some years ago, I set out to write about Sir Francis Bacon, the undertaking loomed frighteningly large. Not only had Bacon been written about copiously for more than three hundred years, but I ...
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