Francis Bacon. Portraits and heads

In the early 1960s Bacon began a series of small portrait heads of those closest to him. often grouped in threes -a format that gave the artist an opportunity to show different aspects of the sitter´s character- Bacon´s small heads reveal a rich vein of intimacy in his art. These private, almost devotional, portraits are brought together for the firts time in this book and the exhibition eich it accompanies.