First Saturday with Bacon
- Filed in: News
- Date: February 9.2009
Queues to see the exhibition of the artist who loved El Prado
Madrid spends his first weekend in the company of dark genius of Francisco de Goya regurgitated and Diego Velazquez, and walked between beauty and horror. The lines at the Museo del Prado were reproduced yesterday to see the exhibition of Francis Bacon, the great artist was born in Dublin a century ago and died in Madrid in 1992, the city where he lived and was cremated. A large sample, which comes from the Tate in London and then travels to the Metropolitan in New York includes 78 works (16 of them major triptychs) that reflect the obsessive world of the creator who often visited El Prado (always on Mondays when the great gallery was empty). The exhibition is divided into subject areas that cover the artist's biography: Animality, Apprehensions, Crucifixion, Crisis, Portrait, Memorial or Death.
Bacon again returns to the museum that both transit, 16 years after his death. Will be until April 19.
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