Francis Bacon: Human Presence Indigenous Food materiality habitat and civic form

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The book also contains more than fifty essays from artists

Francis Bacon: Human Presence Indigenous Food materiality habitat and civic formFeaturing works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon's life story. As well as the artist's self portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter