From painting to catalogue
Artimage worked closely with Musée Fabre’s exhibition department to help them license a range of Francis Bacon images, including In Memory of George Dyer, 1971, (left panel), which features on the cover of the exhibition catalogue.
Artimage guided the Musée team through the whole licensing process, ensuring that they had all the permissions and rights necessary. Take a closer look at the catalogue here.
About the catagloue and exhibition
Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992), whose several hundred images are available to browse and license through Artimage, is internationally renowned as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
Known for his bleak, figurative and highly emotive painted portraiture, the ‘Francis Bacon / Bruce Nauman Face to Face’ exhibition, held by Musée Fabre in Montpellier until 5 November 2017, compares his work with Bruce Nauman, and highlights parallel themes, such as both artists’ fascination for the body and its distortions, transformations and aggressions.
Musée Fabre explains: “Francis Bacon and Bruce Nauman have both, in their own way, renewed the genre of the portrait and the self-portrait… Beyond the immediate resonance between Nauman’s facial contortions, and Bacon’s turbulent brushstrokes, lies the same obsession for facial screams expressing the anxiety of the time.”
Issued on the occasion of the exhibition at the Musée Fabre, the catalogue presents a series of works face to face, enlightened by essays from specialists as well as extensive chronologies. For your own copy of the catalogue click here, or browse our extensive Francis Bacon collection here.
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Image: Front cover, Francis Bacon Bruce Nauman Face to Face, published by Bernard Chaveau, Image courtesy Musée Fabre.