Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective August 4, 2009

This exhibit will feature 153 works (70 paintings, 19 drawings and 64 archival items) that span the entirety of the artist's full and celebrated career. The landmark exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, which mark the centenary of the artist's birth in Dublin in 1909, will bring together the most significant works from each period of Francis Bacon's career, focusing on the key subjects and themes that run through his extraordinary creative output.