Francis Bacon: Portrait, 1962
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Author: Markus Rath
Francis Bacon's portrait of his first partner Peter Lacy was created at a turning point in his oeuvre. Here, Markus Rath embeds the painting into Bacon’s visual world for the first time, revealing a biographically oriented representationalism 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 – pioneering approaches to composition that shaped his late work decisively. Bacon’s portrait of 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.
ISBN 9783422801813. Deutscher Kunstverlag. pb. 130 pages. 39 colour ills. 20 x 13cm.
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Francis Bacon's portrait of his first partner Peter Lacy was created at a turning point in his oeuvre. Here, Markus Rath embeds the painting into Bacon’s visual world for the first time, revealing a biographically oriented representationalism 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 – pioneering approaches to composition that shaped his late work decisively. Bacon’s portrait of 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.
ISBN 9783422801813. Deutscher Kunstverlag. pb. 130 pages. 39 colour ills. 20 x 13cm.
available