Talk
Francis Bacon and post-war London through a queer lens
24 Oct 2024
National Portrait Gallery
London, United Kingdom
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Study for a Self-Portrait, 1979 by Francis Bacon © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2023.
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Exhibition
Francis Bacon: Human Presence
10 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:30 – 21:00
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 10:30 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:30 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 18:00
Address
- St Martins Place
- London
England - WC2H 0HE
- United Kingdom
Event map
Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this exhibition will explore Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre.
About
From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon’s life story. Accompanied by the artist’s self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.
