Torn between traditional disciplines and an urge toward the abstract, his paintings waver between two and three planes. The paint is thick without real density, the image essentially static. His watercolors are more conservative and make fewer demands on a seemingly hesitant approach.
Bertil Vallien, a Swedish ceramist, shows charming clay figures.
—Joan Hugo
Francis Bacon, “Study for Portrait II,” 1956. Courtesy, Marlborough Gallery.
December 1962/January 1963
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