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Francis Bacon

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    A visitor to 'Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective', a major retrospective of British artist Francis Bacon, looks at paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a press preview in New York on May 18, 2009.

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  4. Before the Sistine Chapel meeting, the invited artists are being taken on a guided tour of this collection which includes works by Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Matisse and Georges Rouault. They will be gently encouraged to make a gift of one of their works to the Vatican collection.
    SOURCE: ArtsJournal 6 days ago
  5. Reheated Bacon
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    What can a portrait do to its subject, beyond the usual act of depiction? The question is unexpectedly raised in Damien Hirst's new two-site show. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

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    Lauren Mincher, a sixth form student at Durham Johnston School with her grandfather Bernard Purvis 70 Photo: NORTH NEWS & PICTURES First place is awarded to Lauren Mincher, 18, whose touching portrait of her grandfather, submitted by Durham... Full Article at The Telegraph

  7. Second City to Second City
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    Last Saturday, March 31, we took the Megabus up to Milwaukee, to witness the Francis Bacon exhibition, and to see firsthand the architectural design of Santiago Calatrava. Full Article at Associated Content

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    A visitor to 'Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective', a major retrospective of British artist Francis Bacon, looks at paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a press preview in New York May 18, 2009.

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  9. There is a cabal of curators, critics and gallery owners who want the world to believe that Russian collectors are among the most important on the international scene ... That simply isn’t true at the moment: Roman Abramovich may have paid £43m for Francis Bacon’s Triptych last year, but it was an ill-a...
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 week ago
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    This is the fourth in a series of articles about the relevance and application of the Quaker testimonies. “What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer”. Full Article at Ekklesia

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  24. A cameraman films Francis Bacon's Triptych, inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem ''Sweeney Agonistes'', at Madrid's Prado Museum January 20, 2009. Reuters Pictures 10 months ago

    A cameraman films Francis Bacon's Triptych, inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem ''Sweeney Agonistes'', at Madrid's Prado Museum January 20, 2009.

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    A woman looks at a Francis Bacon painting during an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome November 11, 2009.

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  1. Before the Sistine Chapel meeting, the invited artists are being taken on a guided tour of this collection which includes works by Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Matisse and Georges Rouault. They will be gently encouraged to make a gift of one of their works to the Vatican collection.
    SOURCE: ArtsJournal 6 days ago
  2. There is a cabal of curators, critics and gallery owners who want the world to believe that Russian collectors are among the most important on the international scene ... That simply isn’t true at the moment: Roman Abramovich may have paid £43m for Francis Bacon’s Triptych last year, but it was an ill-a...
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 week ago
  3. The paintings are dreadful. Think Francis Bacon meets Adrian Mole ... What are they doing in the home of such masters as Rembrandt or Poussin, Titian or Fragonard?
    SOURCE: ABC Online 1 month ago
  4. Materials are critical ... And I love the glass. I don't know exactly why, psychologically, but I love the jewel-box thing with the frames. I saw a Francis Bacon show in the '60s at Marlborough Gallery in New York, and he had his paintings framed this way. I loved his paintings, and the frames just put ...
    SOURCE: Philly.com 2 months ago
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