Today in the Tate Britain exhibition at the early works of Francis Bacon, dedicated to the 100 th anniversary of the artist

October 28 will celebrate 100 years since the birth of the famous British artist Francis Bacon (Francis Bacon). Gallery Tate Britain has decided to celebrate the landmark date of the exhibition's earliest works by the artist. In particular, museum visitors will be able to see the design objects - three carpet and ornate screen, which Bacon created in 1929, aged 20 years.

From 1928 to 1930, Francis Bacon worked as a designer of interiors in London, Paris and Berlin. In this field he achieved considerable success. One magazine even published photographs of his studio in South Kensington, under the heading "What should be the British design in 1930. The artist, we note, was then only 19.

Bacon in the number of clients included the Australian painter Roy de Maistre (Roy de Maistre), who later became his teacher, and Sidney Butler (Sydney Butler), the daughter of well-known collector Samuel Courtauld (Samuel Courtauld). Home Butler, the artist created a dining table and several stools.

Bacon Carpets and screens were provided by private collectors. These objects can be said, was lucky: many of their "brothers" were destroyed by the artist himself, who belonged to his creativity very severely. According to the Tate Modern curator Matthew Gale (Matthew Gale), the painter was trying to emphasize that his career began with the famous triptych "Three studies of figures at the foot of the Cross" (1944), and his early works he regarded as negligible. But experts say that the work of a designer is not passed to him without a trace. When working on their design projects, he was inspired by the ideas of modernists, which then develops into a painting. The earliest surviving works of art of Bacon, "Watercolor" in 1929, recalls drawings on his carpets. The same can be said about the painting "Composition" in 1933, which can be seen in Tate Britain. Matthew Gayle said that in these studies clearly expressed influence of Picasso (Pablo Picasso).

Exhibition opens today, October 26.

article prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: telegraph.co.uk , artinvestment.ru