The Art Gallery of NSW will host an exhibition by British artist Francis Bacon this November. Source: AAP
SYDNEY will host the first Australian exhibition of works by painter Francis Bacon, best known for his striking screaming Pope paintings.
Four years in the making, the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) will showcase over 50 paintings as well as archival material from the artist's studio, films and photographs.
The Irish-born painter is one of the most highly sought-after artists in the world, with a 1956 painting of a Screaming Pope reportedly expected to fetch $25 million in a New York auction next month.
AGNSW director Michael Brand said the exhibition would present "a dazzling picture of a complex and conflicted artist whose work retains its visceral impact 20 years after his death".
The gallery's director curatorial Tony Bond said Bacon was the most outstanding painter of the 20th century.
"His images emerge almost by chance from paint applied in ways never conceived of before," he said.
"His ideas have inspired many younger artists, stimulated by his radical philosophical musings on creativity, chance and reality, chaos and order" .
With works drawn from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Tate Britain in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and others, Francis Bacon: five decades is expected to attract over 100,000 visitors from all around Australia.
It is part of the Sydney International Art Series bringing international shows to Sydney every summer.
The Francis Bacon: five decades exhibition runs from November 17-February 24.
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