The Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation associated itself with the exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Books and Painting’ held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from 11 September 2019 to 20 January 2020 by sponsoring the exhibition catalogue and the ‘Bacon Book Club’ programme of talks.
It was over twenty years since the last major exhibition on Francis Bacon, who loved France with a passion, had been held in France ‒ at the Centre Pompidou in 1996. ‘Francis Bacon: Books and Painting’ assembled paintings from 1971, the year of the legendary Grand Palais retrospective, to the artist’s last pictures, painted in 1992. This innovative exploration of the influence of literature on Bacon’s painting was curated by Didier Ottinger.
The exhibition catalogue, edited by Didier Ottinger and published by Éditions du Centre Pompidou, contains contributions by Miguel Egaña, Catherine Howe, Michael Peppiatt and Chris Stephens.
In French
