HUMAN PRESENCE Francis Bacon irish cooking geometric and free-flowing

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Harry Clarke & His Legacy discusses the design of these remarkable stained glass windows

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HUMAN PRESENCE Francis Bacon irish cooking geometric and free-flowingFeaturing works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon's life story. As well as the artist's self portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter