Francis Bacon passed OnThisDay in 1992 🖤
was born to wealthy English parents in Dublin in 1909, and had a colonial childhood amongst the Troubles in a succession of Irish country houses. It was, however, not a happy one: horse-whipped by his father, distant from his mother and locked in a cupboard by his nanny, he came to understand conflict, danger and confinement from a young age.
Bacon was also a lifelong gambler, and enjoyed confronting the risk involved in creativity. Flipping his canvas, he worked on the un-primed side, using not only his brush but his hands and bits of old rags too, to create an aesthetic both of delicate yearning and brutal violence. It was the resonance of a memory or a feeling, its echo filtered through the mind’s eye, which was, for Bacon, worthy of capturing.
From Muybridge 'The human Figure in Motion: Woman Emptying a Bowl of Water/Paralytic Child Walking on AllCollection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved.It isn’t surprising that an unconventional man like Bacon – witness to world wars, the Holocaust, the Atom Bomb and the Cold War – had a bleak view of humanity. His now iconic figures are animalised and defined by conflict.
Dyer was an increasingly insecure alcoholic, and two days before the 1971 opening of Bacon’s retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris, he committed suicide in their shared hotel room. The trauma of his death led Bacon to produce the hauntingas an attempted form of exorcism. Three triptych altarpieces reimagine the oppressive Paris hotel room, Dyer’s erratic and contorted body and his desperate state of mind.
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