Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Sir Francis Bacon, jurist, sage, and poet, is often confused with the much earlier Scholiast, Roger Bacon, but I have never heard of a painter named Bacon. Marc" Hi Marc, Francis Bacin. British painter born Dublín Oct. 28 deceased some years ago famous for his powerful, predominatly figural images express isolation and terror. One of the more well known modern painters . His portrait of the Pope Innocent I was really much in the way of the Velzquez's meninas of Picasso. As he destroy many of his works very few examples can be found mainly in American and European museums. He had a strong problem with the alcohol. Kind regards Félix