Dublin gallery set for a Munch of Bacon

Major twentieth-century artists, Francis Bacon and Edvard Munch, are now on show in Dublin, Dr John Wallace reflects on two new important exhibitions running this autumn {openx:269} The Hugh Lane Gallery on Dublin’s Parnell Square is hosting a major exhibition of Francis Bacon’s work. Bacon was born in Dublin of British parents in October 1909. His father was a well-known horse trainer whom Bacon regarded as ‘narrow minded’. The painter recalled that he did not get on with either of his parents who responded by regarding him as ‘a drifter’. Being asthmatic, Francis Bacon had little conventional schooling. He lived…