References:

• Looking Back at Francis Bacon
  David Sylvester
  Thames and Hudson
  ISBN 0500019940
• Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait
  Michael Peppiatt
  Yale University Press
  ISBN 978-0-300-14255-6
• Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
  Michael Peppiatt
  Constable
  ISBN 1845297318
• Interviews with Francis Bacon
  David Sylvester
  Thames and Hudson
  ISBN 0-500-27475-4
• Francis Bacon’s Studio
  Margarita Cappock
  Merrell
  ISBN 1858942764
• Francis Bacon
  Luigi Ficacci
  Tachen
  ISBN 3-8228-2198-5
• Francis Bacon
  John Russell
  Thames and Hudson
  ISBN 0-500-20271-1
• Phenomena of Materialisation
  Baron von Schrenck Notzing
  Ayer Co Publishing
  ISBN 0405069952
• A School of London: Six Figurative Painters
  Michael Peppiatt
  The British Council
  ISBN 0863550517
• The Isenheim Alter
  Gottfried Richter
  Floris Books
  ISBN 0-86315-266-X
• The Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei M. Eisenstein
  Eureka
  ASIN B00004SGIS
• Love is the Devil
  John Maybury
  BBC Films
  ASIN B001A47GFW
• Bacon’s Arena
  Adam Low
  Diffusion Pictures
  ASIN B001BC3K6M

First shown at the University of Essex, these six paintings by Robert Priseman trace spaces significant to the life of Francis Bacon. Painted over the period 2006-2008, the viewer is invited to contemplate the Paris hotel room where Bacon’s lover and muse George Dyer committed suicide, the room in a catholic hospital in Madrid where Bacon himself was later to die and a series of intimate studios where he produced some of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century.

Absence is the presented subject of this exhibition, which explores the themes of memory as presence as well as the bringing together of Classical and Christian traditions.

This exhibition is accompanied by a book which available in paperback and pdf formats entitled ‘The Francis Bacon Interiors: Michael Peppiatt in Conversation with Robert Priseman’. The book also features an introduction by Robert Hall and an essay by Ann Marie Boyle.

Quotes

“Beautiful and memorable work”
Alain de Botton, 2007

“Robert Priseman’s painting should be viewed within the tradition of liberating the unconscious and haunted self.”
John Finlay, Art Historian 2006

“(these) immense canvases contain a precise and engineered stillness. Any sense of activity or impending movement has departed…. The absence of pattern and pared down colour intensify the sharp perspective.”
Andrea Hadley-Johnson, Curator, 2007

“peopleless pictures of a disquieting, surreal intensity. They are mysterious images to which each individual will contribute his own emotional response.”
David Buckman, Author, The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945

“Priseman’s (…) interiors may be constructed with photorealist
precision, but that belies the emotive power of the paintings. There is (…) a reverential silence for those whose lives hang in the balance.”
Ben Cranfield, 2006

www.robert-priseman.com