Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte - PS-F- 3 Schilling

Études pour un portrait de Van Gogh par Francis Bacon
Jürgen Schilling

Edition de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
Paris 2005

12,- EUR

ISBN-10 2-7351-1072-9
ISBN-13 978-2-7351-1072-8

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Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art - Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte

In 1956-57, Francis Bacon produced a series of eight paintings inspired by the art of Vincent van Gogh. In the present essay, Jürgen Schilling investigates these eight canvases, focusing on their mode of depiction and the place they occupy in Bacon’s oeuvre.