Francis Bacon 1909-1992
Biography
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Triptych August 1972 (right panel), 1989
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Triptych, 1987
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Triptych 1987, 1987
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Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres, 1984
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Right Panel for Three Studies for Portrait of John Edwards, 1984
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Study from the Human Body, 1981
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Untitled (Study for a Pope)
Francis Bacon is the most important British painter of the twentieth century.
He initially established his reputation in London in the 1940s when he was widely publicised for the horror of his imagery, in which he sought to strip man of any veneer of civilisation to expose the psyche of the subject and reveal the Human Condition.He is often associated with the School of London, a circle of figurative painters that includes Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and R.B.Kitaj. In his recreation of the subject Bacon built from Picasso to create a brilliantly inventive art that combined chance with control.
Works
Exhibitions
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Modern British Art 2022
29 Mar - 31 May 2022Read more -
Beyond the Human Clay
5 May - 18 Jun 2011In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B. Kitaj organized a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay. To mark the 35th anniversary of Kitaj's seminal exhibition and to celebrate a decade of exhibitions focused on Twentieth Century British figurative art at James...Read more -
Modernist Realism
The School of London from Andrews to O'Donoghue 25 Feb - 1 May 2010James Hyman Gallery is pleased to present Modernist Realism an exhibition that focuses on artists who have made London their base and are often associated with the School of London. This exhibition and the simultaneous photography show, London Calling, seek to approach the School of London afresh to suggest new...Read more -
Francis Bacon. Prints
5 Sep - 4 Oct 2008Read more -
Violence and Sensation
Francis Bacon and the Remaking of Appearance 5 Sep - 4 Oct 2008James Hyman says: As this exhibition demonstrates, Bacon's legacy was not stylistic so much as conceptual: an encouragement to take risks, an art of extremes, a heightened sense of mortality.Hyman Gallery will also be presenting a series of rarely seen prints by Francis Bacon. As with Bacon, all the artists...Read more -
The Battle for Realism
9 Sep - 1 Oct 2001Exhibition including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Henry Moore, William Scott, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland. ESSAY IN THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER BY JAMES HYMANRead more -
Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Auerbach
Paintings and Selected Drawings 10 May - 22 Jun 2000The exhibition brings together paintings by four of the most important British figure painters of the last half-century, painters often associated with the so -called School of London. It also includes works on paper to demonstrate the radical ways in which these artists reinvented European painting in the face of...Read more
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