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Some years after his death, Francis Bacon’s Reese Mews London studio was mapped and disassembled by a team of archivists and archeologists and moved wholesale to the Hugh Lane gallery in Dublin. A ridiculously messy space, reassembled brush by brush and paper by paper. Imagining this task brings to mind those British lords moving Egyptian temples home, numbering each stone and sailing them a thousand miles to England.
It is the grandest folly. It is wonderful and I don’t know why.
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Bacon was such a character, I love seeing documentaries of him.
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Brancusis atelier is right netx to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. I like watching the workspaces of artists. When they...
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Pierce, who made some excellent points in a comment to this post, noted on Distorte the transplantation of Francis...
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