Francis Bacon: Francophile reveals iconic and in many cases previously unseen photographs of Francis Bacon in France, a country for which he had a deep affection. Featuring more than 150 photographs, the book offers a fresh view of the artist through a portfolio of photographs covering the years from 1932 to 1991, accompanied by Bacon quotations on France, its culture, its artists and its intellectuals.
The photographs reproduced in the book are from the MB Art Collection, which holds the world’s most extensive photographic archive on Francis Bacon’s life and art. At the time of publication, the Collection contained over 700 hundred photographic prints by more than 80 photographers.
The book was printed in a numbered limited edition of 206 copies ‒ the number of the artist’s paintings shown in his solo exhibitions in France during his lifetime. A signed and numbered print of a photograph of Francis Bacon taken by the French photographer André Ostier on the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris in 1982 is enclosed with each copy.
Only forty copies of this book were offered for sale (at a price of €295). It is now out of print.
