Miroir de la Tauromachie, 1990
20 x 15 1/6 x 1 1/2 inches (51 x 38.5 x 4 cm.)
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Francis Bacon is one of the most recognized figurative painters of the 20th century. His unique approach to painting has been influencing artists like Jenny Saville or Damien Hirst. Bacon's signature style is characterized by an energetic and visceral way of painting, with flat backgrounds and a powerful sense of motion. Exploring the human figure in its most distorted aspect, his imagery is often defined as terrifying because of the emotional physicality he attributes to each brushstroke. For Bacon, life inspired art, drawing on the themes and people that surrounded him and on the feelings that were found within him. He aimed to create art that challenged the viewer and resonated with his own personal world. Considered one of the most important British painters of modern age, Bacon’s paintings are among the world’s most valuable works of postwar art.
Miroir de la Tauromachie is the legacy of the influence the contemporary French anthropologist and writer Michel Leiris had on Francis Bacon. Titled after Leiris’ book, written in 1938 and dealing with the erotism of bullfighting, this series of works deliciously capture the antagonist and violent forces that possess the viewer when witnessing a scene of bullfight: repulsion and curiosity, animalistic desire and physical brutality.
