Richard Calvocoressi is the former curator at the Tate Gallery, London, as well as the former director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and of the Henry Moore Foundation. He has curated multiple exhibitions on Francis Bacon's work. A former curator at the Tate Gallery, London and the first director of Tate Liverpool, Richard Francis curated the largest ever Francis Bacon retrospective in 1985 at the Tate Gallery. Mark Stevens is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. He is currently working on a biography of Francis Bacon with Annalyn Swan. Colm Toibin is an award-winning poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, New York. The author of the forthcoming Francis Bacon catalogue raisonne, Martin Harrison has published extensively on Bacon's work.
"As [Francis Bacon's] palette brightened form the 1960s on, and as
broader areas of pure color set off his smeary, rubbery, cartoonish
figures, he started to look more like a painter of mordant comedy
than existential tragedy. . . Often his paintings are like
much-enlarged panels from an unusually stylish graphic
novel."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
"I was blown away by how fresh, shocking, and incredibly beautiful
the paintings are. . . Perhaps those who found Bacon's early work
too graphic and too 'fleshy' will be drawn in by the sheer beauty
of his paintings as well as by what some might perceive as a more
palatable sensibility. These later paintings convery both a
technical mastery and the self-reflectiveness of an artist who had
endured a new phase of maturity."
-HYPERALLERGIC BLOGAZINE
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