Art Of The Day Weekly
#438 - from 7 July 2016 to 7 September 2016
Francis Bacon, Portrait of a Man Walking Down Steps, 1972, oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm. Private collection © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS 2016. Photo : Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.
Bacon, a Monegasque by adoption
MONACO - We all know his links with Ireland, where he was born, with London where he worked and haunted the pubs in Soho, Paris where he underwent the Picasso shock in 1927, at age 18 or Spain, where he died in Madrid in 1992. But Francis Bacon also had lasting links with Monaco. A problem gambler, he was mainly attracted by the casino and he settled there right after the war until the beginning of the fifties. That is where he painted his first Popes, inspired by the Innocent X by Velázquez, which would be one of his most famous motifs. Through some sixty works of art the exhibition examines the subject from all sides, two years after the creation in Monaco itself, of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation.
• Francis Bacon, Monaco et la culture française at the Grimaldi Forum, from 2 July to 4 September 2016.