Francis Bacon: Couplings Kunsthalle Basel On one side the pillow

On one side the pillow shows an “awake” face adorned with a wide smile and open eyes

Jonas Wood translates the three-dimensional world around him—including domestic interiors

they were complemented by related portraits that Avedon made in the 1960s and 1970s

Flying Dragon—among the last of the monumental works Calder made—exemplifies the artist’s capacity to invest a powerful visual dynamism in his work regardless of scale

In an interview with Brooklyn Rail publisher and artistic director Phong Bui

Francis Bacon: Couplings Kunsthalle Basel On one side the pillowThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Bacon: Couplings at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. It highlights a theme that preoccupied Bacon throughout his career: the relationshipboth physical and psychologicalbetween two people. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to