"FRANCIS BACON AND THE TRADITION OF ART"

From: Artforum | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Huck, Brigitte | Copyright information

"FRANCIS BACON AND THE TRADITION OF ART" KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM, VIENNA

Francis Bacon, the crown jewel of British painting, lived through most of the twentieth century, from 1909 to 1991, earning in a good fifty years of activity a reputation as an existentialist on account of his often horrifying diagnoses of reality. Though the artist feared his work would one day end up in storage, it recently appeared in the hallowed halls of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. One might thin...

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