Francis Bacon: Couplings Italian Pablo Picasso’s eldest daughter

Pablo Picasso’s eldest daughter

appropriating their techniques to depict the physical and psychic struggles of adolescence

and stylizing gesture as a propulsive mark

including Guidi’s first triangular-shaped canvases

This extensive monograph on the artist’s recent work introduces readers to important in situ paintings and documents the artist’s 2017 exhibition at Gagosian

Francis Bacon: Couplings Italian Pablo Picasso’s eldest daughterThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Bacon: Couplings at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. It highlights a theme that preoccupied Bacon throughout his career: the relationshipboth physical and psychologicalbetween two people. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to