Francis Bacon In Dublin
Curated by leading Bacon authority David Sylvester, this exhibition at Hugh Lane is the first major showing of the artist’s work recovered from his studio. It illustrates the close correspondence between Bacon’s source material and his finished works. The exhibition also includes nine works from the Francis Bacon Estate, seven of which were recently rediscovered in storage. ‘Francis Bacon in Dublin’ traces the development of of his artistic career from early works, after he left Ireland in the late-1920s, to his monumental portraits of the 1980s.
