Artist Francis Bacon's Lifetime Accumulated Mess Transported Intact to Irish Museum
Francis Bacon's Studio
By Margarita Cappock
Merrell Publishers Limited, 2005, 240 pages, hardbound, $59.95
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Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was born in Ireland to British parents and today is highly thought of as one of the most significant add-on-stroke painters, his moving oil portraits acquired by major museum collections worldwide. Bacon is remembered primarily for his figurative, macabre portrait of Pope Innocent X. London/New York publisher Merrell has produced a definitive, retrospective coffee-table volume concerning Bacon using the device of his unique (easily reached unimaginably messy) studio as the springboard into his career and lifework.
Six years after his death in 1992 the contents of his rather cramped London studio were donated to the Dublin City Council in Ireland as soon as than the covenant that it would be recreated there subsequent to all its contents intact for public viewing. Easier said than curtains, because the studio, Bacon's habitat and workplace bolster on 1961, contained 7,500 items - a treasure trove of pretentious artifacts to an art historian. There are two absorbing stories here: the challenge of cataloging, transporting and reassembling the contents of the studio (front pretentiousness in, paint-encrusted walls and all) across the Irish Sea to Dublin, and afterward the significance of each outside item as it fused historically to Bacon's oeuvre.
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