Francis Bacon: Human Presence – a ‘stirring, splendid’ exhibition
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as “an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times.
When we think of him, we tend to imagine “a painter expressing global angst” – about the “toxic” mid-20th century, Hitler, the Holocaust, and the nuclear arms race. He has not, though, generally been seen as a portrait artist.
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