Barbara Dawson promises exciting new discoveries about Francis Bacon’s technique when his centenary exhibition opens this autumn at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.
‘Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty’ celebrates the centenary of the artist’s birth in Dublin in 1909. The title of the exhibition is taken from W B Yeats’s poem Easter 1916. ‘All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born’ was to become a 20th-century avant-garde chant.
‘Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty’, which opens in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane this autumn, is singular in the canon of Bacon exhibitions. For the first time since the Hugh Lane team relocated and archived Bacon’s Studio the wealth of material in all its categories will be shown alongside his finished paintings. Many of the paintings have not been seen publicly for several decades.
