Books : Francis Bacon's Studio
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by: Margarita Cappock
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.2
EAN: 9781858942766
ISBN: 1858942764
Label: Merrell
Manufacturer: Merrell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 239
Publication Date: October 15, 2005
Publisher: Merrell
Sales Rank: 814964
Studio: Merrell
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Rating: - The first in-depth survey of Bacon's 7,000+ piece studio
His London studio, portrayed on the cover of FRANCIS BACON'S STUDIO, may look like a mess, but Francis Bacon was one of the most significant post-war painters and his studio, both home and workplace, was key to producing his art. His studio housed thousands of items central to his works and has been untouched since his death in 1992: it was donated in 1998 to the Dublin City Gallery and today curators have made it into a showpiece and work of art itself. The studio's deconstruction revealed over ... Read More
Rating: - An Even More In-Depth Coverage of Bacon's Infamous Studio
Though there have been several excellent books written about the contents of Francis Bacon's 7 Reece Mews studio in London, the birthplace of his masterpiece paintings that still haunt the public and the historian minds, this hefty volume by Margarita Cappock offers more. Originally conceived as the book to document the 1998 move of Bacon's studio form Kensington, London to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin where it remains an historic site, Cappock sorts and sifts through the bits of treasure and ... Read More
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