Portraits of a Pope—
(Study On Velásquez's Portrait
of Pope Innocent X 1953)
—after Bacon/Velásquez
(Study On Velásquez's Portrait
of Pope Innocent X 1953)
“single-minded urgency”
“Bacon’s 8 studies of pontiff portraits”
“like successive frames in a film”
“series—variations on a theme”
“a practice that comes naturally”
“strongly obsessive nature”
“deliberately disingenuous”
“without false fauve manner”
“screaming Velásquez popes”
“religious icons, fetishistic idols”
“every change made loses what is already
“Bacon’s 8 studies of pontiff portraits”
“like successive frames in a film”
“series—variations on a theme”
“a practice that comes naturally”
“strongly obsessive nature”
“deliberately disingenuous”
“without false fauve manner”
“screaming Velásquez popes”
“religious icons, fetishistic idols”
“every change made loses what is already
there in the hope of making a fresh gain”
“Tangier…gilded exile”
“flotsam of the bars”
“Soho off-limits”
“Tangier…gilded exile”
“flotsam of the bars”
“Soho off-limits”
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