Francis Bacon: Revelations

Francis Bacon was the most important British figurative painter of the second half of the twentieth century — a painter whose distorted, screaming, isolated figures captured something about the modern condition that no other visual art of his era managed to express. His triptychs, his screaming popes, his studies of the human body in extremis — these are works that cannot be looked at with comfort and cannot be forgotten. This Thames & Hudson retrospective presents the complete Bacon career with the scholarly depth and the visual richness it demands.

An essential reference for anyone serious about twentieth-century art — and the most comprehensive available account of one of the most disturbing and most important painters in modern history. Published by Thames & Hudson.