True or Fake? Francis Bacon’s ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’ Opens in Buenos Aires

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. Few years ago (2003-2004) these drawings – and many others – were the subject of a trial to definitively determine their nature – true or fake? Until then, it was universally believed that Bacon did not use to draw, and if he did, it was

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