Digby Warde-Aldam

We’ve got Francis Bacon all wrong

The National Portrait Gallery's excellent new show dispels the hackneyed vision of Bacon-as-apocalyptic-magus

‘Head of Boy’, 1960, by Francis Bacon. © The Estate ofof Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage2024.

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