Francis Bacon’s ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’ Drawings Displayed in Buenos Aires

Visitors look at a drawing attributed to Irish painter Francis Bacon at Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 04 July 2010. 'Francis Bacon - The tip of the iceberg' presents 40 black and white drawings which have already been exhibited in the Venice Biennale 2009.

BUENOS AIRES.-
The
exhibition was organized on occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennale but it
is a
unique event with an extraordinary character; Centro Cultural Borges in
Buenos
Aires, hosts an exhibition of drawings by Francis Bacon titled ‘The Tip
of the
Iceberg. Drawings by Francis Bacon’. The exhibition – curated by the
famous
English art critic Edward Lucie-Smith and by Alberto Agazzani – shows a
‘corpus’
of about 20 drawings on paper of various sizes, authentically signed by
Francis
Bacon which portray a gallery of monstrous human characters, typical
iconography
of the famous Irish painter who died in 1992.

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