Francis Bacon in St Ives: Experiment and Transition 1957-62This book, that accompanies a Tate St Ives exhibition focusing on Bacon's art between 1957 and 1962, presents a number of the works he painted whilst in St Ives together with a selection of paintings and drawings made both shortly before and after this period. Bacon's concentration during this time on the solitary figure lying down, sleeping or walking, and his experimentation with brush strokes, colour, and chiaroscuro to create an illusion of a moulded form or face, is presented as a result of the important explorative time the painter spent in St Ives. |
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27 cm Tate abstract painting Art Gallery Bacon in St Bacon's development Bacon's stay Barbara Hepworth Belton Ben Nicholson c.1961 Ballpoint pen cm Private Collection cm Robert David Sylvester essay exh cat exhibition Experiment and Transition Faggionato Fine Art figurative painter Figure 1959 Oil Francis Bacon Gogh Ives RESEARCH SERIES James Austin John Rothenstein Karl Weschke Lisa Sainsbury Collection London Lying Figure 1959 Marlborough Fine Art Martin Harrison Michael Peppiatt Miss Muriel Belcher Muriel Belcher 1959 Norwich Photo Oil on canvas oil on paper Painting in St paper 34 Patrick Heron pen and oil Pencil and oil Peter Lanyon Porthmeor Studios Reclining Woman 1961 Robert and Lisa Robert Melville Roger Hilton Sleeping Figure 1959 Sloop Solomon R Guggenheim St Ives Experiment St Ives paintings St Ives RESEARCH stay in St Studios and Painting suggested that Bacon Tate Gallery Tate St Ives Terry Frost Three Studies Wilhelmina Barns-Graham William Redgrave