Tour
Francis Bacon
Couplings
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 6pm
Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London
Gagosian director and art historian Richard Calvocoressi will lead a tour of the exhibition Francis Bacon: Couplings at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. The exhibition of Bacon’s double-figure paintings explores a theme that preoccupied the artist throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both physical and psychological. The event has reached capacity. To join the wait list, contact londontours@gagosian.com.
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Installation view, Francis Bacon: Couplings, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, June 6–August 3, 2019. Artwork © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS 2019. Photo: Mike Bruce
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Join Gagosian for a conversation between art historians, curators, and Francis Bacon scholars Dawn Ades, Richard Calvocoressi, and Martin Harrison on the occasion of Francis Bacon: The First Pope at Gagosian, London. Livestreaming from the exhibition at Davies Street, the trio will explore the groundbreaking rediscovery of ‘Landscape with Pope/Dictator’ (c. 1946), the painting’s importance as arguably the earliest exemplar in Bacon’s pope series, and how the artist’s fascination with propaganda and the conflation of Fascist and papal imagery played a significant role both in this particular work and the series as a whole. To join the online event, register at eventbrite.
Francis Bacon, ‘Landscape with Pope/Dictator’, c. 1946, installation view, Gagosian, Davies Street, London © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2022. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
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Richard Calvocoressi and Martin Harrison on Francis Bacon
Friday, October 4, 2019, 5:30–7:30pm
Hatchards, Piccadilly, London
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Join Gagosian at Hatchards, London’s oldest bookshop, to celebrate the publication of Francis Bacon: Couplings. Gagosian curator Richard Calvocoressi and leading Bacon scholar Martin Harrison, both contributors to the catalogue, will discuss the artist’s double-figure paintings, which were recently on view at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. To attend the free event, RSVP to baconrsvp@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Francis Bacon: Couplings (London: Gagosian, 2019). Artwork © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved/DACS, London/Artimage 2019
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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
With Sebastian Smee
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 6:30pm EDT
Authors Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan will discuss their new book, Francis Bacon: Revelations, with Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee in a conversation presented by the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. A decade in the making, the book offers the first comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, who produced indelible images of humankind and played an outsized role in both twentieth-century art and life. Bacon was a witty free spirit and unabashed homosexual at a time when many others remained closeted, and his exploits were as unforgettable as his paintings. Revelations offers a more complete, nuanced, and international portrait than ever before of this singularly private, darkly funny, eruptive man and his equally extraordinary art. To join the online event, register at zoom.us.
Francis Bacon in his studio in Battersea, London, 1960. Photo: © The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s
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