Artist a day!
FRANCIS BACON
(1909-1992)
Along with Lucian Freud, Bacon's painting revolted against all the criteria of early painting, not only in terms of virtue but also toward the abstraction of the predominant Abstract Expressionism.
In 2013, Francis Bacon's triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) destroyed auction records when it sold for $142.4 million at Christie's.
The painting became the most valuable work ever sold at auction.
Francis Bacon created five hundred ninety paintings. As we know today, he destroyed a lot of pieces in the process. He usually focused on a single topic for sustained times.
Mr. Bacon first succeeded in 1945 with an exhibition titled: "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of the Crucifixion" that was presented at the Lefevre Gallery in London.
Bacon did not start to create until his late twenties. Before his painting career in the late 1920s and early 1930s as an interior decorator and gambler.
According to Francis Bacon, his career as a painter was delayed, because he spent more time searching for a subject theme that could convey his enthusiasm about painting.
"All painting is an accident. But it’s also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.”"All colours will agree in the dark. ”