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Francis Bacon, Three Studies for a Crucifixion, 1962. Oil on canvas, triptych. 198.1 x 144.8 cm each. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 64.1700. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS/ VEGAP. Bilbao, 2016
Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez september 30, 2016–january 8, 2017 second floor • curator: martin harrison Francis Bacon: From Picasso to Velázquez shows a selection of more than 50 of Francis Bacon’s most important and attractive paintings, including works that have barely been exhibited in public before, alongside almost 30 works by different classical and modern masters who influenced his career. The exhibition aims to examine the imprint that French and Spanish cultures left on the output of this British artist born in Ireland, a fervent francophone and connoisseur of the art of the great Spanish masters like Velázquez. Bacon embarked on his career as a painter after visiting the exhibition entitled Cent dessins par Picasso in the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in Paris in 1927. Fascinated by French literature, Bacon was an avid reader of Racine, Balzac, Baudelaire, and Proust and a passionate fan of the art by painters living in France like Soutine, Giacometti and Picasso, along with other earlier artists such as Ingres, Géricault, and Daumier. Beyond his early encounters with Picasso’s oeuvre in Paris in the 1920’s and 1930’s, his relationship with Spanish culture primarily manifested itself in his obsession for Velázquez’s 1650 work Portrait of Pope Innocent X, which Bacon became familiar with through reproductions. Other great masters like Goya, El Greco and Zurbarán also left their mark on Francis Bacon’s oeuvre. Exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with Grimaldi Forum Monaco
CONVERSATION ON FRANCIS BACON wednesday , september
28 Martin Harrison, the curator of the exhibition on Francis Bacon, and Lucía Agirre, curator of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will talk about the work and personality of this artist on the occasion of this show and the recent publication of his catalogue raisonné. venue and time: Museum Auditorium, 6:30 pm tickets :
free at the admissions desk and on the Museum website
LECTURE: BACON AND HIS STUDIO AT 7 REECE MEWS wednesday , october
5 Barbara Dawson, Director of the Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, the site where Francis Bacon’s studio has been reconstructed, will speak about the artist’s working process. venue and time: Museum Auditorium, 6:30 pm tickets :
free of charge at the admissions desk and on the Museum website
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