Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was an Irish-born painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Aiming to render the “brutality of fact”, he painted subjects over sustained periods, creating series and often triptych or diptych formats, often isolating his subjects in rooms or using geometric compositional structures. He is widely acknowledged as one of the giants of contemporary art.

We have a small selection of original Francis Bacon lithographs from French magazine Derrière le Miroir, edition No. 162, published to celebrate Bacon’s second solo exhibition in Paris, at Galerie Maeght, 15 November – 31 December, 1966.

French publisher and gallery owner Aimè Maeght of Galerie Maeght, conceived Derrière le Miroir as an art magazine and art object, presented in a large (11” x 15”) format. Over the magazine’s lifespan, 1946 – 1982, it created original lithographs for some of the most major artists of the twentieth century, including: Bacon, Lèger, Miro, Calder, Tàpies, Chillida, Braque, Matisse, Giacometti, and Chagall. For many years Galerie Maeght was the most important contemporary art gallery in the world.

Exhibitions at Gallagher & Turner:

FRANCIS BACON, 14th October - 19th November 2022