Exhibition

All Too Human. Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life

28 Feb 2018 – 27 Aug 2018

Regular hours

Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00
Monday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00

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London, United Kingdom

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  • 88,77A,C10
  • Pimlico
  • Vauxhall
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Capturing the sensuous, immediate and intense experience of life in paint.

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All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways.

It features artists including Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon alongside rarely seen work from their contemporaries including Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego. Many of them lived or live in London, drawn to the multicultural capital from around the world. Three important works by Francis Bacon will be shown in the UK for the first time in at least three decades.

I want the paint to work as flesh does.
Lucian Freud, 2009

The exhibition also shows how this spirit in painting was fostered by the previous generation, from Walter Sickert to David Bomberg, and how contemporary artists continue to express the tangible reality of life through paint.

[I want to portray the] sensation of a page torn from the book of life
Walter Sickert, 1910

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Exhibiting artistsToggle

Lucian Freud

Frank Auerbach

Paula Rego

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

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