We have seen, if Bacon is the
painter progressive movements, or rather
regressive, meat in the face,
Lucian Freud is that of the painful condition
Human body exposed, inconsolable men
Women and discovery (discoveries in
the sense exhibited, laid bare, excavated).
If the relationship between the two painters lasted
good three decades, it was always
highly complex, full of rivalry
fierce. Jealousy Freud was moreover
certainly the key driver of the rupture,
generated by the phenomenal success of
Bacon in Paris, but also internationally,
while his own celebrity exceeded
not the banks of the Thames. Lucian Freud had
Indeed await death of Francis Bacon
for its own rating explodes on the market.
Yet Bacon was the person who influenced
as the life and work of Freud.
The expressive freedom with which he used
painting to suggest emotion, tension
or anxiety for him was THE absolute model.
The two main representatives of the so
called The London School were they pushed
this close relationship to the report
homosexual, some who knew them well
claim that yes, others no,
probably we will never know exactly
what it was, and ultimately we
does not care. But we know that Bacon spoke
Freud much like it would have done a
drag queen, simply saying, "She"
so both acerbic and derogatory,
but tinged with affection and
admiration. "She," he declared and
during a dinner at the posh lady who had
organized "is not gay, solely
reason that it does not have the means,
not having much in the pants. "
When you have friends like that, no need
enemies. But we see that Lucian Freud
and his seductive power were central
conversations. "Lucian was a story
with everyone and especially all those
fell into his hand, "entrust more
Later one of his conquests. An anecdote
good illustration rivalry
two painters: surrounded by a real
court, Francis Bacon visited an exhibition
where presentations were self-portraits
Lucian Freud. "Ooh ooh," She "does tortures
not as much as its other models, "said
Bacon in the laughter. Freud made
while its input, and laughter ceased
instantly. He never knew what was coming
been said. Despite his jealousy, he stole
Besides the rescue soon as Bacon
he was attacked by others
him. So he broke a small figure
friend of the painter who was attacking it
in the street. Stockholm syndrome requires,
Francis Bacon sharply rebuked, and
the estrangement between them lasted some time.
During these three decades that lasted their
friendship, they saw almost daily,
Bacon and realized not less than nineteen portraits
Freud, while it does the painted
back twice. Before it
being stolen in Berlin in 1988, one of the two
portraits was compared by one critic
"a grenade a split second before
the explosion. "
In 1996, a major retrospective of
Bacon's work, the Pompidou Centre asked
Freud to give a picture of the painter
in his possession, and was suspended from
years in his room. Lucian Freud
opposed an ironic and outright refusal,
the ground that there was no question of
hang another instead meanwhile,
and it would be too depressing for him
watching a nail. Lucian Freud had also
Table sold long ago in
a time of poverty, but never had
delivered to its new owner.
She has since recovered. If it's not
love for Bacon, it is at least of rabies.
