Event Item: 00024

Vis-à-vis Bacon & Picasso

Exhibition: 11th Aug 2007 to 25th Nov 2007

Source: http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch

The summer exhibition brings together Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992), two heroes of 20th-century art.

The motto 'Vis-à-vis' refers first of all to the confrontation of painter and sitter, an arrangement that Picasso and Bacon investigated in many paintings.

For both artists, art history was also a constant vis-à-vis. The younger Francis Bacon took Picasso as a shining example - at once a spur and a touchstone that would never be surpassed. Finally, the direct vis-à-vis of Picasso and Bacon, which never took place in the lifetimes of the two artists, becomes a reality in this exhibition through the juxtaposition of selected works.

The top-class works on display, over forty in number and produced mostly betwen the 1960s and the 1980s come, with the exception of a large Bacon triptych, from a European private collection. An exhibition organised in conjunction with Lucerne Festival.