FAMAG 2008.27
Bacon, Francis (1909-1992): Metropolitan Triptych, publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, signed, inscribed numbered 77/99, etching and aquatint, 62.5 x 110 cms. Copyright The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS, London, 2009.
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Francis Bacon worked at Portmeor studios, St Ives between September 1959 and January 1960. He visited Patrick Heron at Eagles Nest where he admired Heron's abstracts with horizontal coloured stripes. After this he often incorporated a horizontal band of colour into his compositions.