Francis Bacon is celebrated as one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. From the 1940s to his death in 1992, he worked consistently as a painter, ignoring other passing, fashionable trends in art. Throughout his career, the human figure was the dominant subject in his work: his paintings of men and women go far beyond a simple likeness and instead are portraits of complex psychological states. In two essays, this book examines forty of some of his most intense works: his small-format portraits.
- ISBN10 190327866X
- ISBN13 9781903278666
- Publish Date 30 December 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 January 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint National Galleries of Scotland
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English