Francis Bacon Painting Shown Alongside Artist’s Favorite Work

LONDON.- The Estate of Francis Bacon has generously placed an important painting by the artist on loan to The Courtauld Gallery. Untitled (Crouching Figures), c.1952, went on display from yesterday and will initially be presented alongside Honoré Daumier’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, c.1870, in recognition of Bacon’s admiration for Daumier’s masterpiece. When James Thrall Soby, curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, was researching his book on Francis Bacon he contacted Harry Fischer, director of Marlborough Fine [...]

Zach Feuer Gallery Presents Group Exhibition “Spontaneous Generation”

NEW YORK, NY.- Zach Feuer Gallery presents Spontaneous Generation, a group exhibition curated by Meredith Darrow featuring work by Lynda Benglis, Sarah Braman, Alistair Frost, Fergus Feehily, Zak Prekop, Ken Price and Kevin Zucker. In Jorge Luis Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” the title character attempts to write Miguel de Cervantes’ masterwork himself. Unwilling to settle for rewriting, much less paraphrasing or copying it, Menard makes effort after effort to conceive each phrase himself, striving for the intellectual [...]