The First Lecture About Biography Francis Bacon
(born 1909 - died: 1992)
Francis Bacon was born October 28, 1909, inDublin. At the age of 16, he moved to London and subsequently lived for about two years in Berlinand Paris.
Although Bacon never attended art school, he began to draw and work in watercolor. Upon his return to London in 1929, he established himself as a furniture designer and interior designer. In the fall of that year he began to use oils and exhibited a few paintings as well as furniture and rugs in his studio. His work was included in a group exhibition inLondon at the Mayor Gallery in 1933. In 1934, the artist organized his own first solo show at Sunderland House, London, which he called Transition Gallery for the occasion. He participated in a group show at Thomas Agnew and Sons, London in 1937.
Bacon painted relatively little after his solo show in 1934 and in the 1930's and early 1940's destroyed many of his works. He began to paint intensively again in 1944. Pablo Picasso's work decisively influenced his painting until the mid 1940's. From the mid 1940's to the 50's,Bacon's work reflected the influence ofSurrealism.
In the 50's, Bacon drew on such sources asVelazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X andVincent Van Gogh's The Painter on the Road to Tarascon. Bacon soon developed his distinctive style as a figure painter. In his mature style, developed in the 1950's, the paintings include images of either friends or lovers, or images of people found in movie stills, reproductions of historic paintings and medical photos. His people scream in physical and psychic pain, seemingly tortured in bedrooms, bathrooms and cages. His work was always expressionist in style with distorted human and animal forms, potent images of corrupt and disgusting humanity.
Bacon's dramatic and riveting work gained international recognition and acclaim. His first major show took place at the Hanover Gallery, London, in 1949. His first solo exhibition outsideEngland was held in 1953 at Durlacher Brothers, New York. His first retrospective was held at theInstitute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1955.
In 1962, the Tate Gallery, London, organized a Baconretrospective, a modified version of which traveled to Mannheim, Turin, Zurich, and Amsterdam.
Other important exhibitions of his work were held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1963 and the Grand Palais in Paris in 1971; paintings from 1968 to 1974 were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1975. Retrospectives of his work were held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1989-1990 and at the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 1996.
The artist died April 28, 1992, in Madrid.
- Father, Anthony Edward 'Eddy' Mortimer Bacon was a retired Army captain before becoming a breeder and trainer of horses
- Mother, Christina Winifred Loxley Bacon, born Firth, came from a Sheffieldfamily who established their fortune in steel
- He was one of five children
- His father
- claimed to be descended from Sir Francis Bacon, the Elizabethan philosopher
- His father was twenty years older than his wife
- Francis Bacon suffered from asthma and other recurrent ailments and rarely went to school, being taught by private tutors
- Francis Bacon came to London in 1925 and although he received no formal art training, he created a sensation in 1945 when he exhibited his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (London, Tate Gallery) at theLefevre Gallery in London
- His first great love was with Peter Lacy, a test pilot who had flown combat missions during the Battle of Britain. They met in 1952 & Bacon endured a long, punishing and tormented relationship with him
- In 1964 Bacon began a friendship with Eastender George Dyer, who he met (he claimed) while the latter was burgling his apartment. Their relationship was stormy and in 1971 Dyer committed suicide
- In 1974, Bacon met John Edwards, a young, handsome East-Ender with whom he formed an enduring, paternal relationship. Bacon bequeathed his entire estate (valued at £11 million) to Edwards on his death
- Bacon was a legendary gambler and drinker throughout much of his adult life
- In March, 2000, Bacon's dealer for many years, Marlborough International Fine Art, was alleged by the Bacon estate to have grossly undervalued many of the paintings the bohemian and shambolic artist was obliged to sell to them before reselling them for several times the price they paid the artist himself
- The Bacon estate pursued a claim against Marlboroughwhich was settled in 2002 with Marlborough agreeing to release to the estate all documents in its possession that belonged to Bacon or his estate. Both sides paid their own court costs.Documenting the painter's London live/ work space as he left it, 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio saw the studio painstakingly packed up and shipped to Dublin's Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art for an exhibition in 2001.
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