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Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Saturday, 4 June, 2005 - Sunday, 4 September, 2005

Francis Bacon , Study for Head of George Dyer, 1969.

Part of the Icons of the 20th Century series - sponsored by Lloyds TSB Scotland, in association with Bentley Edinburgh. Francis Bacon is celebrated as one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. From the 1940s to his death in 1992 he worked consistently as a painter, ignoring other passing, fashionable trends in art. Throughout his career, the human figure was the dominant subject in his work: his paintings of men and women go far beyond a simple likeness and instead are portraits of complex psychological states. Among his most intense works are his small-format portraits; this will be the first museum exhibition devoted to this fascinating aspect of his work and the first on Francis Bacon in Scotland.

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