CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/30/2016

Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné

"Landscape near Malabata, Tangier" (1963) is reproduced from the Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, published by the Estate of Francis Bacon. Author Martin Harrison writes, "The creature in the foreground resembles, in its kinetic rush, the mechanical hare at a greyhound track. It may be pertinent that Bacon frequently attended greyhound races at this time, gambling on the dogs at another aimlessly circular arena." The Catalogue Raisonné is reviewed this week in The Wall Street Journal, where Martin Gayford writes, "The opus is so substantial in stature—five clothbound volumes, comprising 1,538 pages, in a stand-alone slipcase—as to qualify as an art objet itself." Read more here.