FRANCIS BACON

Essays by international scholars provide new insights into Bacon's art and life, and some fifty art works from every decade of his c areer from the pensive and shocking works of the 1940's to the exuberantly coloured and visceral large paintings of the 1970s and 80 's show Bacon' unique representations of the human body through his mastery of paint. Over 150 additional illustrations portray his studio, friends and lovers, and reveal the diversity of his source materials, from Velazquez to the motion photos of Eadweard Muybri dge.