THE FRANCIS BACON COLLECTION – Bookshop Edition
THE FRANCIS BACON COLLECTION – Bookshop
This volume gathers over 700 drawings, pastels, and collages held by the Francis Bacon Collection.
The high-resolution images—the result of an exclusive photographic campaign by Scripta Maneant—allow for an immersive exploration of every detail of Bacon’s works, highlighting his explosive creativity and his singular, unique figurative language.
Authoritative voices guide the reader through the discovery of the most precious and previously unpublished heritage of Bacon’s art on paper currently held in Italy.
Dino Cura: The President of The Francis Bacon Collection welcomes the reader with an opening greeting, introducing this vast collection of unpublished works on paper.
Edward Lucie-Smith: The renowned art critic and historian explores Bacon’s artistic production in the introductory essay, dismantling the common misconception that Bacon was “not a draughtsman.”
Fernando Castro Flórez: The art critic curates the seven thematic sections into which the 700+ works are divided. His introductory texts navigate the reader through Bacon’s figurative lexicon and the cultural and personal coordinates that inspired his subjects.
Ambra Draghetti & Umberto Guerini: Draghetti (a forensic graphologist) and Guerini (the lawyer who oversaw the collection’s authentication process) provide insights into Bacon’s graphological stroke and the history behind the drawings, respectively.
Professor Maurizio Seracini: A pioneer in multispectral imaging diagnostics, Seracini applied his technology to the collection’s drawings, revealing new attributional details for the first time in a book.
A Definitive Resource: All works, photographed by Scripta Maneant, provide scholars and enthusiasts with documentation of the highest quality—uniform and faithful to the colors and every minute detail of the original pieces.
Description of the Work
- Format 24 x 29,5 cm
- Pages 448
- Images 560
- Languages Italian / English
- ISBN 979-12-80717-62-7
INDEX
Contents
Dino Cura
Suddenly Everything Changes
Edward Lucie-Smith
Francis Bacon, Drawings
Umberto Guerini
Drawings as Rebellion and Love
Fernando Castro Flórez
Francis Bacon, Full-Body Drawing
DRIVES
BEING AND TIME
THE POPE
CRUCIFIXIONS
DEVOTIONS
PORTRAITS
LOVE
Maurizio Seracini
In The Name Of Bacon: Scientific Investigations on Francis Bacon’s Drawing Head
Ambra Draghetti
Signum Baconiensia
Umberto Guerini
Collection’s Discovery and Authentication
Authors
Fernando Castro Flórez
Spanish art critic and philosopher specializing in aesthetics, and Professor of Art Theory and History at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
CON CONTRIBUTI DI
Edward Lucie-Smith
Internationally renowned art critic and historian. He has published more than one hundred books and has written on art for many of the leading British newspapers and periodicals.
Dino Cura
President of Francis Bacon Collection.
Ambra Draghetti
Graphological consultant for the Court of Bologna. She has examined, studied, and authenticated Francis Bacon’s signatures on the drawings for 13 years.
Umberto Guerini
Lawyer and Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bologna’s Faculty of Law. He defended and oversaw the legal authentication process that the drawings underwent before being officially declared works by Francis Bacon.
Maurizio Seracini
Pioneer in the use of multispectral imaging and diagnostic technologies applied to works of art and monumental buildings. He has studied over 4,300 artworks, most notably Leonardo da Vinci’s lost mural, The Battle of Anghiari, as well as the Last Supper, Botticelli’s Primavera, and Caravaggio’s Medusa. In 2006, he joined the faculty at UC San Diego.
Unpublished Photographic Works
Unpublished shots in gigapixel for the exclusive Scripta Maneant photographic campaign.
