One of the most powerful painters of our age, Francis Bacon lived
and worked for the last thirty years of his life in a modest
building in London's South Kensington. After he died in 1992,
access was granted to award-winning photographer Perry Ogden to
work undisturbed for days on end to produce this riveting record of
the house and its contents. In the studio itself, thirty years of
inspired artistic endeavor had accumulated unchecked: the slashed
and discarded canvases scattered across the floor; the brushes,
rags, and tins encrusted with paint; the doors and walls used as
impromptu palettes; the piles of photographs of friends and models;
the crumpled and torn pages of magazines and books that served as a
stimulus for Bacon's work; the notes, sketches, and ideas for
paintings jotted down and then cast aside; the last unfinished
self-portrait on the easel.
For some of those close to Bacon, the studio was a heroic
statement, a work of art in its won right, secretly constructed
over many years to distill and give form to his aesthetic
intentions. Now in this astonishing book we are invited to take a
privileged look around this private space, to become intimate
witnesses to the amazing conditions in which Bacon lived and
worked, to gain unrivaled insights into how, why, and what he
painted.
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