FRANCIS BACON: BACON - FREUD Expressions, 1995 - 50 x 86 cm POSTER

Francis Bacon

Edité par Fondation Maeght, Paris, 1995

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Original exhibition poster by Francis Bacon. 50 x 86 cm, in fine condition. Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 - 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British[1] figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Francis Bacon produced some of the most iconic images of wounded and traumatized humanity in post-war art. Borrowing inspiration from Surrealism, film, photography, and the Old Masters, he forged a distinctive style that made him one of the most widely recognized exponents of figurative art in the 1940s and 1950s. Bacon concentrated his energies on portraiture, often depicting habitues of the bars and clubs of London's Soho neighborhood. His subjects were always portrayed as violently distorted, almost slabs of raw meat, that are isolated souls imprisoned and tormented by existential dilemmas. One of the most successful British painters of the 20th century, Bacon's reputation was elevated further during the "art world's" widespread return to painting in the 1980s, and after his death he became regarded by some as one of the world's most important painters. Lucian Michael Freud OM CH[1] (/frɔɪd/; 8 December 1922 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933, when he was 10 years old, to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British naturalized citizen in 1939. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.[2] Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.

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• Titre: FRANCIS BACON: BACON - FREUD Expressions, 1995 - 50 x 86 cm POSTER
• Éditeur: Fondation Maeght, Paris
• Date de parution: 1995
• Reliure: No Binding
• État de l'article: Near Fine