'Francis Bacon: Self-Portrait, 1972'
Details
Journal:
: Artforum
Year:
Mar. 1995
Volume: Issue XXXIII:7
Language: English
Pages: pp. 78-79
ISBN/ISSN: 0004-3532
Other Publication Details:
This article was part of an ongoing series in Artforum, where writers were invited to discuss a contemporary work that had a special significance for them.
"It is a face by Francis Bacon but not of him. What it's of is all men, and women, too. It's of forgiveness; and it's as beautiful a thing as I have ever seen." p. 79