Francis Bacon: Late Paintings

Colm Toibin author Mark Stevens author Richard Francis author Richard Calvocoressi author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Gagosian/Rizzoli

Published:6th Sep '16

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Encompassing more than twenty-five paintings that Francis Bacon made in London and Paris during the last two decades of his life, this book serves as a companion to the 2015 exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, New York, and is the first in-depth exploration of the innovations of the artist's late work. In his late paintings, Francis Bacon refined themes that had long obsessed him. He quoted reflexively from his oeuvre, reworking subjects to strip them to the bare essentials. This stunning new book features over 150 colour illustrations of the artist's work and related materials, including reproductions of ephemera from Bacon's Hugh Lane studio.

"As [Francis Bacon's] palette brightened form the 1960s on, and as broader areas of pure color set off his smeary, rubbery, cartoonish figures, he started to look more like a painter of mordant comedy than existential tragedy. . . Often his paintings are like much-enlarged panels from an unusually stylish graphic novel." 
- THE NEW YORK TIMES 

"I was blown away by how fresh, shocking, and incredibly beautiful the paintings are. . . Perhaps those who found Bacon's early work too graphic and too 'fleshy' will be drawn in by the sheer beauty of his paintings as well as by what some might perceive as a more palatable sensibility. These later paintings convery both a technical mastery and the self-reflectiveness of an artist who had endured a new phase of maturity."  
-HYPERALLERGIC BLOGAZINE 

ISBN: 9780847847754

Dimensions: 312mm x 241mm x 23mm

Weight: 1588g

208 pages