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"In this second version he appears to have reacted by wreaking his revenge on the sceptics with an even starker manifestation of the idea." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p878 Painting: Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe, 1968

"Bacon was shown a transparency of a new painting in which, <...>the colour had a pronounced blue shift: he liked the unintended effect <...> and had the painting returned to him to repaint." Incunabula p.187 Photograph of Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait of Van Gogh II, 1957

"The painting was sold to Alfred Hecht in 1960 as ‘Falling Child’, but Alley, who was presumably informed by Bacon <...>, stated that ‘the child was not meant to be falling’." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p624 Painting: Study of a Child, 1960 #FrancisBacon

"It appears to be brightly lit from within (or even ablaze?), but the grey paint smeared across the columns renders this part of the scene indecipherable." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p156 Painting: ‘Landscape with Colonnade’, c.1945 #FrancisBacon #artist

"Bacon’s aim was to portray Freud’s likeness, his essence, in the minimum amount of brushstrokes." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p790 Painting: Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1965 #FrancisBacon #artist #art #fineart

Bacon may have erased the identity of individuals in order to concentrate on limb positions or other aspects of a composition. Incunabula p.197 Photograph of Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud (Sideways), 1971 #FrancisBacon #artist

The wonderful Edward Onsloe (previously Ted Westfallen) describes his friendship with Bacon, sparked in the Soho gambling den where he worked and where Bacon was a patron, and how he came to be the subject of Study for Portrait (1969).⁠ Out now: youtu.be/45J3B4euIK8

"...ostensibly inconsequential details encapsulated the atmosphere of his cluttered environment - that they were metaphors for his working process." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p1122 Painting: Triptych, 1977 ⁠ #FrancisBacon

Step into the lesser-known side of Francis Bacon’s life — beyond the studio. A rare glimpse into the social world that shaped one of the 20th century’s most provocative artists. Full Interview: l8r.it/RpFg #FrancisBaconInterview

"Painted shortly after the Van Gogh series and stylistically consistent with it, the red and green flicks of the grasses refer back to Bacon’s landscapes" Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p512 Painting: Figure in a Landscape (Miss Diana Watson), 1957

Edward Onslow, a close friend and confidant, shares candid reflections that reveal a portrait of the artist beyond the canvas; his relationships, values and personality. Full Interview: l8r.it/iPxU #FrancisBaconInterview

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Quote From: David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon (Thames & Hudson, 2008)⁠ ⁠ p91 Interview 3⁠ ⁠ #FrancisBacon

"The isolation of the heads on a lilac ground, with only the neck painted and the absence of shoulders, is highly unusual." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p872 Painting: Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1968 ⁠ #FrancisBacon

"... painted specifically as an illustration for her book, Peintres aux fourneaux. It was reproduced together with Bacon’s recipes for Steak and Kidney Pie and Syllabub." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p1150 Painting: Side of Beef, 1978

"Auerbach was one of Bacon's closest friends in London's art community: a section taken from the catalogue of Bacon's 1962 Tate Gallery retrospective can be discerned at the top of this cutting." Incunabula p.105 ⁠ #FrancisBacon

"The horizontal divisions that delineate the floor, couch and wall are fundamentally the same as those he had introduced in Lying Figure, 1959 (59 ‑08)." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p882 Painting: Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1968 ⁠ #FrancisBacon

"...extraordinary vigour and intense colours<...> it may have been that he was invigorated by the arrival in his life of a new lover and muse, George Dyer." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p736 Painting: Study for Portrait (with Two Owls), 196 ⁠ #FrancisBacon

"Leaf from book, Jacques Penry, How to Judge Character from the Face, London: Hutchinson, 1952 (Chapter A, plates A8-All). Noses featured significantly in Bacon's facial topographics. This book was also an alternative source of his directional arrows." Incunabula p.32

"The ringed, downcast eyes also echo those of Picasso’s ‘primitive’ heads of the Les Demoiselles d’Avignon period, 1906–07" Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p544 Painting: Head II, 1958 ⁠ #FrancisBacon