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Francis Bacon: Paris, Monaco and the Cote d'Azur
British painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) was one of the most important artists of the last half of the twentieth century, his grotesque, abstract figures instantly recognizable, and wholly unforgettable. Though he was a familiar figure in the rackety corners of London’s Soho, Bacon also had deep personal and artistic ties to France and Monaco, and this book is the first to explore those at length.

The relationship began in Paris in 1927, where a teenaged Bacon saw an exhibition dedicated to Picasso—and saw his future vocation. Soon after World War II, Bacon moved to Monaco, where he lived until 1950, and began to paint the “popes” series, which would transform his art, and make his reputation. On visits to Paris, meanwhile, he made friends with such prominent figures as Alberto Giacometti and Michael Leiris; the city would go on to be the setting for the exhibition that marked his arrival as a master, a retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971. And after 1975, Bacon kept a studio in the Marais district of Paris.

​This richly illustrated bilingual volume draws links from all these periods to Bacon’s art, showing how the experiences and milieu of Paris and Monaco made its presence felt in his work and helping establish him as not simply a British painter, but part of a larger European artistic and cultural world.
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Francis Bacon: Paris, Monaco and the Cote d'Azur
British painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) was one of the most important artists of the last half of the twentieth century, his grotesque, abstract figures instantly recognizable, and wholly unforgettable. Though he was a familiar figure in the rackety corners of London’s Soho, Bacon also had deep personal and artistic ties to France and Monaco, and this book is the first to explore those at length.

The relationship began in Paris in 1927, where a teenaged Bacon saw an exhibition dedicated to Picasso—and saw his future vocation. Soon after World War II, Bacon moved to Monaco, where he lived until 1950, and began to paint the “popes” series, which would transform his art, and make his reputation. On visits to Paris, meanwhile, he made friends with such prominent figures as Alberto Giacometti and Michael Leiris; the city would go on to be the setting for the exhibition that marked his arrival as a master, a retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971. And after 1975, Bacon kept a studio in the Marais district of Paris.

​This richly illustrated bilingual volume draws links from all these periods to Bacon’s art, showing how the experiences and milieu of Paris and Monaco made its presence felt in his work and helping establish him as not simply a British painter, but part of a larger European artistic and cultural world.
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Francis Bacon: Paris, Monaco and the Cote d'Azur

Francis Bacon: Paris, Monaco and the Cote d'Azur

Overview

British painter Francis Bacon (1909-92) was one of the most important artists of the last half of the twentieth century, his grotesque, abstract figures instantly recognizable, and wholly unforgettable. Though he was a familiar figure in the rackety corners of London’s Soho, Bacon also had deep personal and artistic ties to France and Monaco, and this book is the first to explore those at length.

The relationship began in Paris in 1927, where a teenaged Bacon saw an exhibition dedicated to Picasso—and saw his future vocation. Soon after World War II, Bacon moved to Monaco, where he lived until 1950, and began to paint the “popes” series, which would transform his art, and make his reputation. On visits to Paris, meanwhile, he made friends with such prominent figures as Alberto Giacometti and Michael Leiris; the city would go on to be the setting for the exhibition that marked his arrival as a master, a retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1971. And after 1975, Bacon kept a studio in the Marais district of Paris.

​This richly illustrated bilingual volume draws links from all these periods to Bacon’s art, showing how the experiences and milieu of Paris and Monaco made its presence felt in his work and helping establish him as not simply a British painter, but part of a larger European artistic and cultural world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780956873880
Publisher: Heni Publishers
Publication date: 05/15/2017
Edition description: Bilingual
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 8.80(w) x 10.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Martin Harrison is the author of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné and the curator of the exhibition on Bacon, Paris, and Monaco.
 

Table of Contents

Avant-propos
Foreword
Majid Boustany
Bacon à Monaco et en France
Bacon in Monaco and France
Martin Harrison
Une mine précieuse: Francis Bacon et la France
A Private Treasury: Francis Bacon and France
Sarah Whitfield
La France et l’œuvre de Bacon
French Connections
Martin Harrison
Francis Bacon et le jeu: le pari intérieur
Francis Bacon and Gambling: the inside bet
Dr Rebecca Daniels
Un coup soudain
A sudden blow
Amanda J. Harrison
Francis Bacon et la France des années 1940
Francis Bacon and Forties France
Dr Carol Jacobi
Bacon, Leiris: l’impossibilité de la presence
Bacon Leiris: The Impossibility of Presence
Catherine Howe
Gilles Deleuze et l’image philosophique de Francis Bacon
Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophical Image of Francis Bacon
Dr Darren Ambrose
Francis Bacon et la poésie française: vers une généalogie de l’image comme processus
Francis Bacon and French poetry: towards a genealogy of image as a process
James Wishart
Francis Bacon intime
France Bacon: an intimate view
Notes Endotes
Liste des œuvres exposées
Exhibited Artworks
Remerciements
Acknowledgements
 
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