Featuring more than 55 works from the 1950s onwards, this exhibition will explore Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre.
From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon’s life story. Accompanied by the artist’s self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.
| Duration | 10 October 2024 - 19 January 2025 |
| Times | Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00 |
| Cost | £23 / 25.50 with donation |
| Venue | National Portrait Gallery |
| Address | St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE |
| Contact | / archiveenquiry@npg.org.uk / www.npg.org.uk |