Francis Bacon: Late Paintings Alain Elkann Austria (2008)

Austria (2008)

a legible schema of interlocking words

conceptualizing his practice relative to the media landscape that inspired it

was Lichtenstein’s first solo show outside the United States

The front cover features a three-color screen print by the artist representing his signature and initials punctuated by images of one of his best-known motifs

Francis Bacon: Late Paintings Alain Elkann Austria (2008)This book was published on the occasion of Francis Bacon: Late Paintings at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. The exhibition gathered over twenty key works that Bacon made in London and Paris over the final two decades of his life. During this period, the artist concentrated on paintings of heads, portraits, studies of truncated bodies on pedestals, and landscapes, along with canvases inspired by those of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and