Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953
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Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953 Details
About the Author Hugh M. Davies has been the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, since 1983. A native of South Africa, he completed his doctorate at Princeton University where his dissertation on Francis Bacon was published by Garland Publishing Inc., and he coauthored another book on Bacon in Abbeville Press's Modern Masters Series in 1986. Read more
Reviews
Handsomely bound and articulated volume of all of the eight "Study for Portraits", ostensibly the Pope paintings, some of them "screaming", This volume contains as well, the Study after Velazques' Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953. This volume represents the exhibition of these paintings at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in 1999. The catalogue is laid out in a very logical but interesting way. The illustrations of the exhibition content is interspersed with large full page details of the paintings at hand, along with an interview of Francis Bacon conducted by Hugh M. Davies in 1973 in the artist's Reece Mews studio. Bacon's artistic and personal statements concerning his work remain stikingly consistent throughout his career.This volume is a must have for any Francis Bacon aficionado.;