11 September - 4 July 2008
Tate Britain
'Birth, copulation and death/That's all the facts when you come
to brass tacks.' Few would deny that this quotation from T.S.
Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, a poem Francis Bacon admired
and made the subject of a painting, is an apt summary of his
philosophy and work. We are familiar with its ...
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