“I’ve always hoped to put over things as directly and rawly as I possibly can” remarked 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Francis Bacon, and his haunting, visceral works remain the perfect embodiment of postwar existential angst. In this episode of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Masterworks, discover the artist’s obsessions, inspirations, and method through excerpts from his iconic interviews with British art critic and curator David Sylvester. Bacon’s words inform our understanding of sensational paintings like 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Study for a Head, the very best of six portrait heads completed by the artist in 1952. This extraordinary work conveys Francis Bacon’s most celebrated and recognizable iconography and immediately presages his magnum opus – the Pope paintings produced in the following year. As such, this work occupies a critical position at a moment that would come to define Bacon as a master. Study for a Head will be offered as a highlight of Sotheby’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Contemporary Art Evening Auction as part of the 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Richard E. Lang and Jane ⭕Lang Davis Collection to benefit the Friday Foundation. (16 May | N♕ew York)

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Contemporary Art Evening Auction

16 May 2019 | 7:00 PM EDT | New York