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Article: BACON SLASHER; Gallery find works of art knifed by artist buried in squalor of famous studio.(News)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2002
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Byline: JOHN KELLY
HUNDREDS of previously unknown preliminary sketches and slashed works by Ireland's most famous post-war artist, Francis Bacon, have been discovered by art scholars.
The finds, made at Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, have been described as "a spectacular insight into Bacon's mind" by the gallery's director, Barbara Dawson.
The discoveries came as the artist's chaotic Kensington bed-sit studio was dismantled and transported from London to Dublin after being gifted to the gallery by the artist's heir, John Edwards.
The move, ...
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