until Sunday January 19 2025

National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
WC2H 0HE London
United Kingdom

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Featuring more than 55 works from the 1950s onwards, this exhibition will explore 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. Accompanied by the artist’s self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.

Photo: Study for a Self-Portrait, 1979, by Francis Bacon. Photograph: John Berens/© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2023.