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The Irish Times takes no responsibility for the content or availability of other websites His London studio has been in Dublin for some years, but a new centenary exhibition of paintings and archive material explores Francis Bacon's influences and... Full Article at Irish Times
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PARIS—The appearance of a $9 million Francis Bacon made headlines at the Frieze Art Fair, which rarely sees such expensive work. Full Article at Art Info
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Perhaps bored with encasing cows in formaldehyde or covering a platinum skull in real diamonds (that one sold for 50 million pounds sterling), British artist Damien Hirst has really shocked art critics by his latest activity: he's actually painting... Full Article at Shopping Blog
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LONDON (Reuters) - British artist Damien Hirst has made a reputation, and sizeable fortune, from suspending animals in formaldehyde and filling medicine cabinets with pills. Full Article at Reuters
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Damien Hirst's The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (2008) at the Wallace Collection. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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I’d spent the day wearing my father’s Gieves & Hawkes suit, which retained his smell here and there and a strand of his hair. I found this enormously consolatory. People aren’t dead if you don’t want them to be.
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It's quite funny isn't it? You kind of think you've done all of that formaldehyde work, and then it's a real shock that you're doing something quite straightforward
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Hirst's paintings lack the kind of theatricality and grandeur that made Bacon succeed ... At its worst, Hirst's drawing just looks amateurish and adolescent ... He can't yet carry it off.
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