Nasce a Dublino nel 1909. Si impone all'attenzione internazionale dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, mantenendo una posizione isolata nella sua ricerca che, pur svolgendosi nell'ambito figurale, non cade mai nel racconto o nell'illustrazione. Distorsione, frammentazione, isolamento dell'immagine sono i mezzi pittorici che in un nesso complesso di associazioni e operando su varie fonti (poesia, dramma, dipinti di altri autori, fotografia) creano presenze angosciose, aggressive e violente.
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI:
1928
Londra, 17 Queensberry Mews West
1934
Londra, Transition Gallery, Francis Bacon
1945
Londra, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by Francis Bacon, Frances Hodgkins, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Graham Sutherland
1949
Londra, Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon
1950
Londra, Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings
1951
Londra, Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon
1953
New York,
Durlacher Bros, Francis Bacon
Londra,
Beaux-Arts Gallery, Francis Bacon: New
Paintings
1954
Londra, Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon
1955
Londra, ICA, Paintings by Francis Bacon
1956
Londra, Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon
1957
Parigi,
Galerie Rive Droite, Francis Bacon
Londra,
Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon
1958
Torino, Galleria Galatea; Milano, Galleria dell’Ariete; Roma, Galleria dell’Obelisco, Francis Bacon
1959
Londra,
Hanover Gallery, Francis Bacon
Chicago,
Richard L Feigen Gallery, Francis Bacon:
12 Paintings 1947 – 1958
1960
Londra,
Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon:
Paintings 1959-1960
Los Angeles,
University of California, Francis Bacon
1961
Nottingham, University Department of Fine Art, Francis Bacon
1962
Londra, Tate
Gallery; Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim; Torino, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna;
Zurigo, Kunsthaus Zurich; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Francis Bacon
Milano,
Galleria Galatea, Francis Bacon
1963
Londra,
Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon
New York,
Granville Gallery, Francis Bacon
New York,
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum; Chicago, Chicago Art Institute and Contemporary
Arts Association, Francis Bacon
Napoli,
Galleria Il Centro, Francis Bacon
1965
Amburgo,
Hamburger Kunstverein; Stoccolma, Stockholm Moderna Museet; Dublino, Municipal
Gallery of Modern Art, Francis Bacon
Londra,
Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon:
Recent Paintings
1966
Milano,
Galleria Toninelli Arte Moderna, Francis
Bacon: Mostra di Undici Dipinti
Parigi,
Galerie Maeght (itinerante), Francis
Bacon: Opere recenti
Torino,
Toninelli Arte Moderna, Francis Bacon
1967
Siegen, Oberes Schloss, Francis Bacon
1968
New York, Marlborough Gerson Gallery, Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings
1970
Torino, Galleria Galatea, Francis Bacon
1971
Parigi, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Francis Bacon: Rétrospective
1972
Milano, Galleria del Milione, Francis Bacon
1973
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Francis Bacon
1975
New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Francis Bacon:
Recent Paintings 1968-1974
Zurigo,
Marlborough Galerie, Francis Bacon
1976
Marsiglia, Musée Cantini, Francis Bacon: Oeuvres Récentes
1977
Parigi, Galerie Claude Bernard, Francis Bacon: Oeuvres Récentes
1978
Madrid, Fundacion Juan March; Barcellona, Fundacion Juan Mirò, Francis Bacon
1980
Mannheim,
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Francis Bacon:
Schreiender Papst 1951
New York,
Marlborough Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Recent Paintings
1983
Londra, Marlborough
Fine Art, Francis Bacon
Tokyo,
National Museum of Modern Art (itinerante), Francis
Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982
1984
Parigi,
Maeght Lelong, Francis Bacon: Peintures
Récentes
New York,
Marlborough Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Recent Paintings
Londra,
Thomas Gibson Gallery, Francis Bacon
Bruxelles,
Galerie Isy Brachot, Francis Bacon. Estampes, pour la première fois en
Belgique
1985
Londra,
Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon:
Paintings
Londra, Tate
Gallery; Stoccarda, Staatsgalerie; Berlino, Nationalgalerie, Francis Bacon
1987
New York,
Marlborough Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Paintings of Eighties
Basilea,
Galerie Beyeler, Francis Bacon:
Retrospektive
Parigi,
Galerie Lelong, Francis Bacon: Peintures
Récentes
1988
Mosca, New
Tretyakov Central House of Artists, Francis
Bacon
Tokyo,
Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon:
Paintings
1989
Parigi,
Galerie Lelong, Francis Bacon
Washington,
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum;
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Francis
Bacon
1990
New York,
Marlborough Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Paintings
Liverpool,
Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings
since 1944
1992
Madrid, Galeria Marlborough, Francis Bacon: Pinturas 1981-1991
1993
New York,
Marlborough Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Paintings 1981-1990
Lugano,
Museo d’Arte Moderna, Francis Bacon
Venezia,
Museo Correr, XLV Biennale di Venezia:
Figurabile Francis Bacon
Londra,
Marlborough Fine Art, Francis Bacon
1909-1992: Small Portrait Studies, loan Exhibition
1994
Berlino, Fine Art Rafael Vostell, Francis Bacon: Einblicke in das graphische Werk
1995
Malmo, Malmo
Konsthall, Marlene Dumas and Francis
Bacon
Saint-Paul,
Fondation Maeght, Bacon-Freud:
Expressions
Monaco,
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau: Francis Bacon
1996
Parigi, Centre Georges Pompidou; Monaco, Haus der Kunst, Francis Bacon
1998
Humlebaek,
Louisiana Museum, Francis Bacon
Londra,
Hayward Gallery, Francis Bacon: The Human
Body
New York,
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Important Paintings from the Estate
1999
San Diego,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Francis Bacon:
The Papal Portraits of 1953
New Haven,
The Yale Centre fro British Art (itinerante), Francis Bacon: A Retrospective
Londra, Tate
Gallery, Francis Bacon: Working on Paper
Parigi,
Galerie Lelong, Francis Bacon: Papes et
Autres Figures
2000
Dublino, Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, Francis Bacon in Dublin
2001
Sheffield, Millennium Galleries, Francis Bacon 1909 – 1992
2002
Londra,
Faggionato Fine Art, Francis Bacon: Last
Paintings
New York,
Marlborough Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Paintings
Arles,
Fondation Vincent Van-Gogh-Arles, Van
Gogh vu par Bacon
New York,
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Paintings
2003
Vienna,
Kunsthistoriches Museum; Basilea, Fondation Beyeler, Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art
Porto. Museu
de Arte Contemporanea de
2004
Valencia, IVAM; Parigi, Musée Maillol, The Sacred and the Profane
2005
Edimburgo,
National Galleries of Scotland; Amburgo, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads
Londra,
Faggiano Fine Art, Francis Bacon:
Studying Form
2006
Londra,
Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon:
Triptychs
Düsseldorf,
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: Francis Bacon: The Violence
of the Real
2007
Milano, Palazzo Reale, Francis Bacon
St Ives, Tate St Ives, Francis Bacon in St Ives. Experiment and
Transition 1957-62
2008
Londra, Tate Britain; Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Francis Bacon.
2009
Roma, Galleria Borghese, Caravaggio-Bacon
2011
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Soutine/ Bacon
Londra, Ordovas, Irrational Marks: Bacon and Rembrandt
2012
Sidney, Art Gallery NSW, Francis Bacon: Five Decades
2013
Londra,
Ordovas, Movement and Gravity: Bacon and
Rodin in Dialogue
Tokyo,
National Museum of Modern Art; Toyota, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Francis Bacon
2014
San
Pietroburgo, Hermitage, Francis Bacon and
the Art of the Past
Norwich,
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Francis
Bacon and The Master
2015
New York,
Gagosian, Francis Bacon: Late Paintings
Londra,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, FB55
2016
Liverpool,
Tate; Stoccarda, Staatsgalerie, Francis
Bacon: Invisible Rooms
Monaco,
Grimaldi Forum; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Francis
Bacon, Monaco and the French Culture
