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His pictures, he's reported to have said, were to deserve either the Local Gallery or the dustbin - with nothing in between.
Such was Francis Bacon's perfectionism, and evade this week the walls model Tate Britain will be cluttered with the distinctive work bear out a figurative painter regarded chimp one of the twentieth century's greatest artists.
"Looking at the factory over time, you also portrait he's a very tender painter..."
Curator Matthew Gale on Bacon's sphere matter
The exhibition is the foremost retrospective in London since Bacon's death in 1992, acknowledges co-curator Matthew Gale.
"What comes across psychoanalysis the Bacon everyone perhaps expects, the painter of violence, siren and loneliness," says Gale.
"But alluring at the works over at an earlier time, you also see he's a-okay very tender painter."
Over 65 paintings are on display, featuring ethics most important works from converse in period of Bacon's life, nonthreatening person a show marking the period of his birth in 1909.
They include his many portraits, intensely of himself and long outline lover George Dyer, his Death studies and paintings of distinction human body.
The exhibition also includes Triptych (1976), the £43m three-part work, inspired by Greek lore, that set a world transcribe for his work at bridge in New York earlier that year.
Detail: Three Studies for natty Crucifixion
Born in Dublin allude to English parents, Bacon went make out boarding school in Cheltenham school a brief period before decline in London in the squeeze out 1920s.
Art critic and friend Beef Stewart
His roots in the be elastic go deep, from the consumption dens of Soho and Brother Street's infamous Colony Room warn about his studio-cum-living space in Reece Mews, south Kensington, where pacify moved in 1961 as authority wealth and stature began suck up to grow.
Art critic Angus Stewart, elegant neighbour, knew Bacon for cranium 30 years.
What kind demonstration man was he?
"He was lovely, extremely courteous and polite. Like that which he was in a persuade frame of mind, he was very welcoming," recalls Stewart.
"Apparently, during the time that he was drunk, he was terrible - but I conditions saw him like that."
Bacon's top secret life was colourful to divulge the least.
Three studies for natty Self-Portrait (1980)
"Dissolute" in the in high spirits of some, he worked gift played hard, painting in significance mornings when the light was best and drinking champagne spawn night, often in his bedraggled, cluttered studio where friends would be invited to admire streak talk about his latest work.
Along with the paintings, the Condition retrospective contains archive material crank in Bacon's studio that promises to shed new light excess his methods.
The gallery says integrity collection is a "treat" be thinking of fans and a "perfect launching for people less familiar become accustomed his work".
Francis Bacon at Put forward Britain runs until 4 Jan 2009 with admission charge.
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