Francis Bacon and the masters
By: Academic editors: Amanda Geitner, Thierry Morel, Calvin Winner
Contributors: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Publisher: Fontanka
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781906257156
Subjects: Sources; English Painting; Exhibitions; Modern Art
Description: "Francis Bacon and the Masters presents more than twenty of the artist's paintings, the majority coming from the extraordinary collection assembled by Bacon's patrons, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury, over the course of the artist's lifetime and now in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Along with other landmark paintings from the Tate Collection and other major public and private collections, these are placed in the context of masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg: Egyptian mummy masks, Roman and Renaissance sculpture, and a number of the museums most famous paintings such as Rembrandts Portrait of an Old Man, Matisses Nymph and Satyr and Picassos A Young Lady. These remarkable works, brought together for a ground-breaking exhibition at the Hermitage and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, are given further context by items and photographs from Bacon's own studio archive, now in Dublin. The exhibition is guest curated in both venues by Dr Thierry Morel, and co-curated by Amanda Geitner and Calvin Winner from SCVA. The contributing authors are Dr Thierry Morel, Professor Paul Joannides (Cambridge University), Amanda Geitner (SCVA), Calvin Winner (SCVA) and Margarita Cappock (Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane)."
Notes: "This catalogue is compiled by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, and the State Hermitage Museum"--Title page verso.

Issued in conjunction with the exhibits "Francis Bacon and the Art of the Past", held at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 7 December 2014-8 March 2015, and "Francis Bacon and the masters, held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 27 April-26 July 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Francis Bacon and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts  -- Paul Greenhalgh; title: Bacon in the Hermitage  -- Mikhail Piotrovsky; title: Francis Bacon and the art of the past  -- Thierry Morel; title: Bacon, Michelangelo and the classical tradition  -- Paul Joannides; title: Illustrations --; title: A very modern patronage: Francis Bacon and the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection  -- Amanda Geitner; title: Francis Bacon's studio  -- Margarita Cappock; title: Francis Bacon's studio archive --; title: Hermitage Catalogue entries  -- Sergei Androsov, Irina Artemieva, Alexander Babin, Andrey Bolshakov, Natalia Demina, Liudmila Kagané, Elena Karcheva, Albert Kostenevich, Irina Sokolova, Anaa Trofimova; title: Bacon Catalogue Entries  -- Calvin Winner, Margarita Cappock; title: Bibliography.