HUMAN PRESENCE Francis Bacon celebrating irish women after all as Emily Dickinson

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with their early deaths playing a key role in their posthumous fame

Sarah Purser was an energetic advocate for the visual arts in Ireland throughout her life

HUMAN PRESENCE Francis Bacon celebrating irish women after all as Emily DickinsonFeaturing works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon's life story. As well as the artist's self portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter