This is haunting work which is as overwhelming now as it ever was. Not so much beastly, as demonic ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
, the first exhibition in London to focus on his work since 2008, takes a different approach. It’s co-curated by Michael Peppiatt, a friend of Bacon’s and what we get isn’t just Bacon’s paintings of animals – though he was obsessed by them and by photographs of them in motion – but the old idea of man as beast. Peppiatt recalls Bacon telling him, in Soho, after they had seen a man getting kicked by a group of thugs: “We are all animals. If you care to think about it.
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