5 works on Francis Bacon - inscribed by the artist

8 July, 2015
Genre: Art Architecture
Category: Rare Books

Catalogues, a survey, and a set of interviews, all inscribed by the artist himself, in rather vivid purple ink. (Many with correspondingly eye-catching illustrations of Bacon’s gorily garish paintings.)

SYLVESTER, David. Interviews with Francis Bacon.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1975.

LEIRIS, Michel. Francis Bacon: oeuvres recentes.
Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, 1977.

LEIRIS, Michel, and David SYLVESTER. Derriere le Miroir - Francis Bacon 1966.
Paris: Maeght, 1966.

RUSSELL, John. Francis Bacon. New aspects of art.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1971. 

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