Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. His paintings of the 1940s bore witness to the shattered psychology of the time and shot him to a prominence that hardly diminished over nearly fifty years. His paintings use shocking colours and ravaged textures to evoke the underside of a self-threatened humanity. Recent record auction sales have confirmed his works as some of the most sought after pieces in the modern era.

ISBN 9780500093443 | E | HB