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- Editora: Thames & Hudson
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- Ano: 2001
- ISBN: 9780500510346
Sinopse
7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, was Francis Bacon´s home and studio for over thirty years. After he died in 1992, access was granted to award-winning photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this riveting record of the house and its contents. He captured every part of the small building´s hidden interior: the rickety wooden staircase; the kitchen with its `gallery` of Bacon works in reproduction; the bedsitting room with its bookcases piled high. In the studio itself, thirty years of inspired artistic endeavour had accumulated unchecked: the slashed, discarded canvases scattered across the floor; the brushes, rags and tins encrusted with layer upon layer of paint; the surfaces used as impromptu palettes; the last unfinished self-portrait on the easel. For some, Bacon´s studio was an heroic statement, a work of art in its own right, constructed to distil and give form to his aesthetic intentions…
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