Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings

Artist: Francis Bacon 
Author: Michel Leiris 
Publisher: Marlborough Fine Art 
Date: 1967 
Condition: Printed card covers with clear acetate jacket printed with text, the acetate cover rather worn and with one section missing to the top of the front cover. The covers lightly worn and with a soft crease to the bottom right corner and through the volume. Internally clean and tidy, with colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Text in English and French.

Bacon's Marlborough exhibitions in the 1960s were major events, both commercially and artistically. Bringing new work to the notice of the international collectors who were now keen to get hold of a painting, these exhibitions were a key element in the balancing act of keeping interest not quite fully satisfied so there was always more demand. 

There are some classic Bacon images and sitters in this show - Henrietta Moraes, Lucian Freud, George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne and Muriel Belcher all appear here, a microcosm of the artist's world.