Resumen de Works on Paper by Francis Bacon in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Francis Bacon lived and worked at 7 Reece Mews in South Kensington, London, from 1961 until his death in 1992. One of a short row of converted coach houses on a quiet cobble-stoned lane, it was a modest dwelling and consisted of a kitchen-cum-bathroom, a bedroom and a studio. In contrast to the rather spartan quality of the bedroom and kitchen, the studio was chaotic (Fig.4). Bacon himself said of this cluttered space: 'I feel at home here in this chaos because chaos suggests images to me."' The artist rarely painted from life and the heaps of torn photographs, fragments of illustrations, books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers found in the studio provided nearly all of his visual sources. When the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, received the donation of the entire contents of Bacon's studio in August 1998, the subsequent cataloguing of every single item, amounting to 7,500 entries, proved extremely rewarding and a number of im- portant revelations have been made about the artist's life, inspiration, unusual techniques and working methods.
