![]() Bacon's works are permanently part of public collections around the world, including the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, England Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. In 20, a major retrospective of Bacon's paintings traveled to the Tate Britain, London, England (September 11, 2008–January 4, 2009), to the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain (February 3–April 19, 2009) and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 20–August 16, 2009). Bacon worked with skilled printers to create his relatively small body of etchings and lithographs that total only about 40 editions. This paradox remains consistent with his prints, which he based on a selection of 35 of his own paintings dating from 1965 to 1991. Bacon's oil paintings simultaneously repel and intrigue the viewer with their bold, grotesque figures. Bacon's figures can be described as distorted, fleshy masses in anguish these shocking and unsettling images are his representation of the evils and the devastation of the human condition. ![]() ![]() Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1909, prominent British painter and printmaker Francis Bacon created controversial art until his death in 1992.ĭespite the fact that he did not receive formal training, Bacon gained instantaneous recognition in 1945 after an exhibition at Lefevre Gallery in London that included his 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
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