Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on the canvas.
A Retrospective Exhibition presents Bay Area audiences with the unique opportunity to assess the intriguing work of this signal figurative artist of the 20th century. The first comprehensive posthumous showing in the United States of Bacon's work, this traveling exhibition showcases 58 paintings spanning the period from 1933 through 1990. Culled from a dozen museums in the United States and Europe as well as from numerous private collections throughout the world, many of the paintings will be seen in this country for the first time. Bacon is recognized more and more as one of the key figures of the modern tradition, and there has never before been a retrospective of this importance in the Bay Area. The exhibition also includes five of Bacon's large-scale triptychs.