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Article: A Bacon Year for Dublin.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
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- February 1, 2000
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This year the city of Dublin hosts a number of Francis Bacon exhibitions which have already generated heated controversy in Ireland and the U.K. Although the Irish-born artist lived in London for most of his life, Dublin is shaping up to be the focal point of new Bacon scholarship. Kicking off the excitement is "The Barry Joule Archive: Works Attributed to Francis Bacon," which inaugurates a series of new galleries at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Feb. 20-Aug. 27. The exhibition features a selection of some 100 drawings (many done on photographs) on loan from the collection of Barry Joule, Bacon's former neighbor, handyman and driver. Joule said that just a few ...
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