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Francis Bacon on Primrose Hill, London, 1963

 

Brandt’s wide-angle lens,

which produces a sense of space distorted in depth,

and the chosen moment, just after sunset

with the last light of day blending with the artificial light,

give this scene a strange atmosphere

 

Photograph: Bill Brandt Archive

 

Bill Brandt: capturing the beautiful and the sinister – in pictures

An exhibition of the work of the acclaimed photographer and photojournalist

explores the relationship

between his pictures and the art of the European avant-garde,

in particular surrealism,

showing how a fascination with the strange manifests itself

in his artistic and documentary practice

 

The Beautiful and the Sinister is on display

at Foam, Amsterdam, until 18 May

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Mon 18 Apr 2022    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/apr/18/
bill-brandt-beautiful-sinister-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francis Bacon, 1960

 

Photograph: Cecil Beaton

 

Beaton described Francis Bacon

as ‘a brilliant but devastating painter’.

 

In 1957,

the photographer asked Bacon to paint him,

and after a fruitless session, they tried again in 1960.

In the interim,

Beaton photographed Bacon at his studio

in the Battersea neighbourhood of London

Cecil Beaton: Icons of the 20th century - in pictures

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11 June 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jun/11/
cecil-beaton-icons-of-the-20th-century-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francis Bacon 1909–1992

Study for a Portrait        1952

Medium Oil paint and sand on canvas

Dimensions

Support: 661 x 561 x 18 mm

frame: 880 x 740 x 73 mm

Collection Tate

Acquisition

Bequeathed by Simon Sainsbury 2006, accessioned 2008

Reference T12616

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/francis-bacon-682

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francis Bacon    1909-1992

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/bacon

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/francis-bacon-682 

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/29/arts/
francis-bacon-82-artist-of-the-macabre-dies.html

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/21/
a-class-of-his-own-sale-of-rare-bacon-works-marks-30th-anniversary-of-artists-death

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/apr/18/
bill-brandt-beautiful-sinister-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/07/
horror-safari-francis-bacon-peter-beard-inflamed-dead-elephants-heart-of-darkness

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jun/11/
cecil-beaton-icons-of-the-20th-century-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/may/06/
tapes-reveal-francis-bacons-shock-at-1968-drug-bust

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/24/
francis-bacon-catalogue-art-historian-stephen-smith

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/02/
francis-bacon-30-years-of-drinking-with-michael-peppiatt-artist

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/
francis-bacon-in-your-blood-review-michael-peppiatt

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/arts/design/
elaine-wynn-eyes-the-bigger-picture-in-los-angeles.html

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/03/
francis-bacon-crucifixion-rembrandt-titian-cano

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/20/
francis-bacon-self-portrait-sothebys

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/04/
bacon-portrait-of-freud-owned-by-dahl-up-for-auction

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/arts/design/
bacons-study-of-freud-sells-for-more-than-142-million.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/11/13/
244964857/record-142-4m-for-francis-bacon-art-warhol-fetches-57-3m

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/13/
francis-bacon-painting-lucian-freud

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/27/
moore-bacon-sculpture-lessons

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/22/
other-side-of-francis-bacon

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/07/
francis-bacon-art

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/05/
francis.bacon

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2007/apr/24/art

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/sep/13/greatinterviews

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/29/arts/
francis-bacon-82-artist-of-the-macabre-dies.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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