Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-74

Artist: Francis Bacon 
Author: Henry Geldzahler (intro.) 
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Date: 1975 
Condition: Printed card covers with a die-cut window showing an image of a Bacon portrait, there are some very light handling marks to the covers and a little tanning to the edges. Internally very clean and tidy and apparently little-used. A very nice copy of this catalogue

Produced to accompany an important exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum in 1975, this is very much peak period Bacon. The paintings are classic images - figures in rooms, portraits of friends - but the whole selection is very much infused with the ghost of George Dyer and several self-portrait images. Dyer's death in 1971 had been a major upset for Bacon and the work of the following years showed it. Indeed the reviewer of this show for the New York Times felt that it showed Bacon grieving via the medium of painting.

As well as Henry Geldzahler's introductory essay, there is an edited transcript of an interview between Bacon and Peter Beard, an extensive chronological biography and a selected bibliography.