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...But Francis Bacon looks like a prophet. He’s always come with a bunch of question marks. Was he too dark, too cruel, too male?...
...At the far end of the space hangs a canvas bearing a furious tangle of the whippy, gestural marks that are Hambling’s signature....
...The final room brings together artists, from Walter Sickert to Francis Bacon, who were inspired by the curmudgeonly Parisian....
...A Manhattan vitrine for emerging artists that shut its doors in 1994, the gallery showcased talents such as Rudolf Stingel and Mark Wallinger in their early careers....
...By the 1960s Gaitonde had developed the style that would mark him out as one of the supreme abstract painters of the past century....
...Details: Rachel Spence was a guest of Lagunalonga (lagunalonga.it), which offers a week’s trip for up to six people, including all meals on board, from €8,000....
...In the early 1960s, Francis Bacon commissioned the photographer John Deakin to photograph Lucian Freud. Deakin posed Freud on a bed in a cheap room....
...(Disclosure: his display was curated by FT photography critic Francis Hodgson.)...
...Richard Long’s decision to make his mark with no more than a long strip of unmowed grass in the middle of an otherwise clipped lawn is mischievous rather than moving....
...“Mark [Francis, the curator at Gagosian Gallery, which is collaborating with him on this show] suggested it,” explains Caro, who hadn’t looked at these works in years....
...That Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud regularly headline auction results is not news. This pair, however, are classed as “contemporary”, whereas it is the “modern” brigade who are now making their mark....
...“That was our suggestion,” she recalls of the display at Downing Street that saw works by Anish Kapoor, Sean Scully, Mark Francis and Thérèse Oulton replace the portraits of dead white males favoured by...
...The decision to confront Francis Bacon with Caravaggio is also fraught with risk. As the curators acknowledge, the 17th-century master exerted no direct influence on the Irish-born modernist....
...But how interesting that he was also a crucial inspiration to Mark Rothko....
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