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Biography
British painter, born in Ireland. In 1925, he settled in London and, in the following year, in Berlin. Between 1927 and 1928, he worked as an interior decorator in Paris. His first works were strongly influenced by Picasso. In 1928, he returned to London and started painting in oil. In 1944, Bacon decided to destroy all his work and start a new style of painting, distanced from contemporary artistic tendencies. A decade later he was, with Nicholson and Freud, one of the British representatives at the Venice Biennale and, in 1955, he had his first one-man show at the Rive Droite Gallery in Paris. Between 1959 and 1992, he participated in "documenta" 2, 3, 6 and 9, in Kassel. In 1962, he made his first great triptych called "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Cruxification". In 1967, he received the Rubens Prize in Siegen and, in 1971, he had a great retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palais, in Paris. His work is an unusual mixture of Realism and Surrealism, the Figurative and the Abstract, individual, subjective experience and universal and collective expression.
Exhibitions
Francis bacon, Peintures Récentes Galerie Maeght Lelong, France 18-01-1984 ~ 25-02-1984
Francis Bacon, Recent Paintings Marlborough Gallery Inc., USA 05-05-1984 ~ 05-06-1984
Francis Bacon Tate - Britain, United Kingdom 22-05-1985 ~ 18-08-1985
Francis Bacon Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany 19-10-1985 ~ 05-01-1986
Francis Bacon Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Germany 07-02-1986 ~ 31-03-1986
Francis Bacon: The Human Body Hayward Gallery, United Kingdom 05-02-1998 ~ 05-04-1998
Francis Bacon: A Retrospective The Yale Center for British Art, USA 25-01-1999 ~ 21-03-1999
Francis Bacon: A Retrospective The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA 08-04-1999 ~ 27-05-1999
Francis Bacon: A Retrospective The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA 13-06-1999 ~ 02-08-1999
Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Fort Worth Art Museum, USA 20-08-1999 ~ 15-10-1999
Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wien), Austria 15-10-2003 ~ 18-01-2004
Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art Galerie Beyeler, Switzerland 08-02-2004 ~ 24-06-2004
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Novas Aquisições da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 11-08-1999 ~ 02-01-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Sedução Cinema & Pintura Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
Francis Bacon Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany 19-10-1985 ~ 05-01-1986
Francis Bacon, Milan Palazzo Reale, Italy 04-03-2008 ~ 05-09-2008
Não te Posso Ver Nem Pintado Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 15-09-2008 ~ 10-05-2009
Édipo e a Esfinge Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 02-11-2009 ~ 10-01-2010
Arriscar o Real Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Ingres et les modernes Musée Ingres (Montauban), France 03-07-2009 ~ 04-10-2009
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Sous la Dictée de L’image Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010
Bibliography
Athens in Paris - Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought, 2005 Published by Oxford University Press ISBN 0-199277257
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Colecção Berardo, Novas Aquisições, 2000 Published by Arte Ibérica
Dada: “ Ingres et après...”, no. 116 Published by Mango
Francis Bacon, 1986 Published by Abbeville Press
Francis Bacon, 1985 Published by Tate Gallery, London; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgard and Nationalgalerie
Francis Bacon, 1988 Published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1987, and Thames & Hudson, London, 1988
Francis Bacon, 1975 Published by Fabbri Editori
Francis Bacon, 1985 Published by Thames & Hudson in association with Tate Gallery
Francis Bacon, 1993 Published by Thames & Hudson
Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art, 2000 Published by Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and Foundation Beyeler
Francis Bacon, Peintures Récentes, 1984 Published by Galerie Maeght Lelong
Francis Bacon, Recent Paintings, 1984 Published by Marlborough Gallery
Francis Bacon: A Retrospective Published by The Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut; The Minneapolis Insttute of Arts, Minnesota; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Francis Bacon: Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres, 1983
Francis Bacon: Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres, 1983
Francis Bacon: The Human Body, 1998 Published by Hayward Gallery
Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 972890200X
Ingres - Regards Croisés, 2006 Published by Mengès, Réunion des Musées Nationaux ISBN 2856204643
Looking back at Francis Bacon, 2000 Published by Thames & Hudson
Sedução Cinema & Pintura, 2006 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903034
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
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