Francis Bacon - The South Bank Show (Portrait 1985) dt. UT

“If you watch this Emmy Award-winning profile of Francis Bacon, you’ll always remember these 54 minutes. A production of London Weekend Television (now ITV London), The South Bank Show offered documentary portraits of well-known artists and performers from Douglas Adams to Steve Reich to Terry Gilliam to the Pet Shop Boys. Only natural, then, that it would turn its lens toward Bacon in 1985, when his canvasses of human figures, often in triptych, just abstracted enough to cause subconscious trouble, reached