14, p. 29, Porto: Fundação de Serralves 1, 18-20, 22, 182; ill. No. 2007, Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery 33, p. 53 (centre panel), ill. no. He explained that none of the pictures listed in the 1964 catalogue raisonné as ‘Abandoned’ was treated as a candidate for inclusion, adding ‘it seems reasonable to me that during an artist’s lifetime and for a few years after his death, a retrospective exhibition should not include works that he considered abandoned. Two of these are paintings which had been sold and were destroyed in accidents while in private ownership; a third was damaged beyond restoration when it fell into Tokyo Dock. The so-called ‘slashed canvasses’ are not (with one, uble Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, The question of ‘finish’, as signifying a putative state of completion, is probably less relevant in the case of Bacon than most other artists. 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Margarita Cappock published them in 2005 under the heading ‘Destroyed Canvasses’, which raised questions regarding Bacon’s intentions with the destructions. Francis Bacon (July-August 1965, Marlborough) Marlborough Price:US $25.00 Quantity:1 Publisher: Marlborough Condition:Used: Very Good Binding: Paperback ... Crucifixion triptych foldout, and more. 26 Sep. 2006-10 Dec. 2006, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum FRANCIS BACON RIGHT PANEL-BIG DETAIL - Crucifixion, 1965. 75, p. 71 (centre panel, b&w), Francis Bacon: 'Taking Reality by Surprise', London: Hayward Gallery In the past most of Bacon’s paintings have been described as ‘oil on canvas’. [53] Triptych, Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants, 1968. 52 (centre panel), 113; ill. no. The following ‘Notes for readers’ are extracted from the catalogue raisonné (Vol.1, p.102 and 103) and elaborate on the methodology and thinking behind the compilation and presentation of some data, such as titles, dates and media. 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While Satan, upon his sunbed, grins. From the ripped-open gut spills the 5 May. Four canvasses removed from Bacon’s studio in 1978 appeared on the market in April 2007, and a further five, from a separate source, were sold in June 2007; six fragments of canvas which had been given in the 1950s to the Cambridge artist Lewis Todd, who painted on their primed sides, were auctioned in March 2013. Francis Bacon. The Francis Bacon and The Masters film was produced for the Art Fund by Northern Town. 2015-26 Jul. An atheist and nihilist, the only ‘finish’ he recognised – and was haunted by – was death: to finish a painting was, perhaps, analogous to dying. 2005-4 Sep. 2005, Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle Original Painting: Oil, Acrylic on Canvas. Triptych: Each panel: Alley numbers, for example (Alley 106), are those assigned to each painting in the first catalogue raisonné, Ronald Alley and John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (London: Thames & Hudson; New York: Viking Press, 1964). 109, p. 176 (right panel, b&w), Francis Bacon: In Conversation with Michel Archimbaud, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times, pp. 183, No. 17 Nov. 2012-24 Feb. 2013. Between 1959 and 1969, when he completed Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing, Francis Bacon painted his friend and muse at least 23 times (counting each triptych as one work). Bacon seemed at first to be the Dudley Moore of painters. 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Oil on canvas, each panel 198 x 147.5 cm. 6; pp. Paintings were usually sent to be photographed shortly after leaving Bacon’s studio. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 79, pp. 2015, pp. So where has it all gone? Moreover, if Fragment of a Crucifixion, 1950 (50-02), in which more than half of the canvas is unpainted, was considered by Bacon a ‘finished’ painting, it is counterintuitive to categorise ‘Lying Figure’, c.1953 (53-21), for example, as ‘unfinished’. 26 Sep. 2006-10 Dec. 2006, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum On small portrait canvasses he – or a friend – invariably cut out the head, and on the large canvasses the heads and sufficient of the main figurative elements to nullify the ‘image’ were excised. Dublin, The Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Francis Bacon, April - May 1965, ... was clearly at the forefront of Bacon’s mind is apparent in the swastika-brandishing figure of the right panel in Bacon’s 1962 Crucifixion and the war-time source of the present work’s composition. Melville doubted that Bacon gave any of his paintings the title ‘Pope’, and pointed out that when he was working for Erica Brausen at the Hanover Gallery, ‘we used to call them “cardinals” rather than “popes” in the presence of visitors, to make sure that no one would be offended.’ Melville predicted that all the paintings in the 1964 catalogue would be thenceforth known by the titles assigned to them by Ronald Alley. In the present catalogue the titles of paintings dating from 1929 and 1930 follow those adopted by Alley, but they have been placed within inverted commas since it is highly unlikely that Bacon titled them as they are, by their media; (Alley had to negotiate Bacon’s indifference – or hostility – towards his pre-1944 œuvre). 52, 53, 53, p. 93 (b&w); No. London: Tate Gallery in assoc. This triptych was the third such which Bacon painted related to the Crucifixion, and follows 1944's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and the Three Studies for a Crucifixion of 1962. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. 14, 85, 87, 92-93, 136-137, 140; ill. No. 1990, New York: Museum of Modern Art 185, 201-203, 235; ill. No. 18 Apr. It was neither whimsical nor accidental that he called so many of them ‘Study for…’: he was being not so much tentative as open-ended. Artist with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, London: Tate Britain 5 Feb. 1998-5 Apr. Bacon destroyed many hundreds of paintings. Among the paintings with descriptive titles in the catalogue, many did not emerge into public view until after 1998. The so-called ‘slashed canvasses’ are not (with one exception, Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, 1964 (64-03)) included in this catalogue. 2003, p. 112; ill. No. Email This BlogThis! The five works Bacon included in his first exhibition, in 1930, all had specific titles. ... Francis Bacon. 51 (right panel), 207, Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 78, p. 113, The information in the present section on francis-bacon.com is based on the data in, ‘Notes for readers’ are extracted from the, Vol.1, p.102 and 103) and elaborate on the. 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Bacon paints malaise and violence with dark paintings, with particularly heavy themes such as war, crucifixion, or existentialist issues…. In the 1964 catalogue raisonné, under pressure from Bacon, Ronald Alley consigned abandoned or destroyed paintings to two appendixes, classified as ‘A’ and ‘D’. Doubtless Bacon cut the canvasses so as to leave the stretchers intact for reusage, but while he could not have foreseen the tattered fragments eventually having a commercial value, or being exhibited, he could have rendered the destruction more complete (by burning the fragments, for example). In my opinion “Lying Figure” is a very fine example of Bacon’s work.’. 12 Sep. 2013-5 Jan. 2014, Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 2005, In Camera: Francis Bacon, Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting, Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation', 'Demons and beefcake - the other side of Bacon / Sadomasochism and shoplifting sprees: Bacon's legacy revisited', 'Disturbed Ground: Francis Bacon, Traumatic Memory and the Gothic', 'Eerie resonance as Moore and Bacon capture a savage dignity', 'European painting in LA: A grab bag of well-worn issues', 'Ex-convict gets the spoils of Bacon's £30m legacy', 'Exhibition Reviews: Bacon/Picasso: Paris', 'Exhibition Reviews: Bacon; Hirst: London', 'Exhibition Reviews: Edinburgh and Luxembourg: The School of London', 'Exhibition Reviews: Francis Bacon: Norwich, Wisconsin and Buffalo', 'Exhibition Reviews: Francis Bacon: Vienna and Basel', 'Exhibition Reviews: London: Francis Bacon', 'Exhibition Reviews: New York: Winter painting exhibitions', 'Exhibition Reviews: Paris and Munich: Francis Bacon', 'Exhibition Reviews: São Paulo: The 1998 Bienal', 'Exhibitions: Francis Bacon: Dublin and Compton Verney', 'Explosion at San Giovanni in Laterano, Summer 1993: Notes for Francis Bacon's Figure with Meat', 'Farewell to flat, goodbye to square: London Commentary', 'For sale: portraits that Bacon wanted to dump in a skip', 'Francis Bacon - 'I Wanted to Paint the Scream'', 'Francis Bacon Archive, Tate Britain, London', 'Francis Bacon and Walter Sickert: 'images which unlock other images'', 'Francis Bacon and a vision of perfection', 'Francis Bacon and the Fortunes of Poetry', 'Francis Bacon and the tradition of art: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna', 'Francis Bacon artwork sets auction record in NY', 'Francis Bacon at the Metropolitan Museum', 'Francis Bacon in Paris: figures in a room', 'Francis Bacon o la pintura en carne viva', 'Francis Bacon was a shock merchant, not a Nazi', 'Francis Bacon's correspondence with Sir Colin Anderson', 'Francis Bacon's plea for costs rejected', 'Francis Bacon, 82, Artist of the Macabre, Dies: Francis Bacon, Painter, Is Dead at 82', 'Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: Cheim and Read', 'Francis Bacon, confounder of art critics: Master of ebullient despair', 'Francis Bacon, the Papal Portraits of 1953', 'Francis Bacon/Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone, Ashmolean Museum', 'Francis Bacon: "De-Faced" Self-Portraits', 'Francis Bacon: A great, shocking, eccentric painter', 'Francis Bacon: Metropolitan Museum of Art', 'Francis Bacon: New transmutations of an autumn rose', 'Francis Bacon: Painting after Photography', 'Francis Bacon: South Kensington London 1982', 'Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait - Francis Bacon: Incunabula', 'Francis Bacon: contradicciones sublimadas', 'Francis Bacon: une bouche comme un Sahara', 'French and English art: New trends in painting and sculpture', 'From London: Some Anglo-Saxon intentions and responses', 'From the Archives: James Thrall Soby and Francis Bacon', 'Galleries: A natural talent for symbolism', 'Galleries: The thoughtful process of falling off a log', 'Gallery 'cheated Bacon out of tens of millions'', 'Gowrie’s 'outrageous' decision stops lottery cash for artist’s story: Bacon love film funding blocked', 'Handyman brings home the Bacon for art sleuths', 'Hanover Gallery: Mr. Francis Bacon's paintings', 'High prices for modern British pictures', 'His life was a commitment to excess. Furthermore, for the ‘post-Alley’ years, 1963 to 1991, the titles established by Bacon and Marlborough Fine Art have been adopted consistently; for example, although Painting, 1980 (80-09) was exhibited in 1999 with the descriptive title Three Figures, One with a Shotgun, subsequent research has shown that its original title was Painting, and has been reverted to here. Lucian Freud British Painter. 76-77, No. 26 Oct. 1971-10 Jan. 1972, Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle Private collection, New York. His partial destructions were, typically, ambivalent, while as the creator of images that had ‘failed’, the connotations of violence in his taking a knife to them has clear psychological implications. ... Three studies for a crucifixion (right panel), 1962. Biography of Francis Bacon At the age of 17, Francis Bacon is chased out of the family home 28 Oct. 2009-7 Mar. 27 Oct. 1962-25 Nov. 1962, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum After 1969, Bacon titled, signed and dated, on the reverse of the canvas, a majority of his paintings: before that date he only did so intermittently. 19 Oct. 1985-5 Jan. 1986, Berlin: Nationalgalerie 22, 69, 770, 1160, 1344; ill. pp. London: Thames & Hudson in assoc. Paintings were usually sent to be photographed shortly after leaving Bacon’s studio. ... Francis Bacon, Crucifixion, 1933 "Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms" at Tate Liverpool, Liverpool. An atheist and nihilist, the only ‘finish’ he recognised – and was haunted by – was death: to finish a painting was, perhaps, analogous to dying. Margarita Cappock published them in 2005 under the heading ‘Destroyed Canvasses’, which raised questions regarding Bacon’s intentions with the destructions. with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, London: Tate Britain 119, 121 (detail), Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology, London: Thames & Hudson, London: The Estate of Francis Bacon, The information in the present section on francis-bacon.com is based on the data in, ‘Notes for readers’ are extracted from the, Vol.1, p.102 and 103) and elaborate on the. Oil on canvas, each panel 198 x 147.5 cm. Francis Bacon Tachismo Dublin Madri Drawing Arte Figurativa Personagens Femininas Fazendo Um Esboço Arte Contemporânea. 13-14 (foldout), London: Thames & Hudson, New York: Harry N. 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Robert Melville, reviewing the 1964 Alley/Rothenstein catalogue raisonné in Studio International, July 1964, observed that Study from Innocent X, 1962 (62-2), despite having been painted only two years previously, had already been given three different (if unofficial) titles – Red Pope, Red Pope on Dais, and Red Figure on a Throne. 26 Oct. 1971-10 Jan. 1972, Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle All rights reserved. 6, pp. While every effort has been made to include these details, until paintings are examined (and ideally scientifically tested) with the glass removed, the descriptions of media will inevitably be incomplete. Size is … All rights reserved. 57, pp. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. Bacon's new paintings: African animals', 'Mr. The question of ‘finish’, as signifying a putative state of completion, is probably less relevant in the case of Bacon than most other artists. Forty such canvasses, found in Bacon’s studio after he died, are now in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. 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