Francis Bacon (1976)

Here we are dealing not with a science based on precise anatomical and aesthetic laws, but with a procedure derived from fleeting, stealthy, casual clues, grasped often with the help of the cold, merciless eye of the camera. The human body has perhaps never said more by its mere violent presence.’ Lorenza Trucchi, the distinguished Italian critic, has written the most comprehensive monograph to date on our greatest living painter. Its 140 colour plates (including full-page fold-outs for the triptychs) reproduce all his major works from 1944 (the year of The Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion) to the present. It excludes the few remaining earlier works (at the instance of Francis Bacon himself) but includes nearly all the works done since the great Paris retrospective of 1971, most of them never before reproduced. A list of exhibitions, comprehensive bibliography, detailed biographic outline and an index complete the volume.

Condition: Some discoloration and tears to dust jacket edges. Some spotting and toning to pastedowns and endpapers.