Francis Bacon’s Painting Gloves at Auction

Thanks for sharing the love!
Share on facebook
Facebook
0
Share on google
Google
Share on twitter
Twitter
Share on pinterest
Pinterest
0
Share on reddit
Reddit
0

Paint Stained Gloves Art (?)

Are we taking our infatuation with artist’s too far when we worship their tools in addition to their work? Read more:

Francis Bacon's painting gloves

Artists and art lovers have often flocked to see the studios of their favorite painters. We like to see how the greats before us work. It can be enlightening. It can also be a relief to see that ours is not the only untidy studio in the world, or that we are not the only painter to have a touch of OCD.

As arts writer Jonathan Jones states:

Artists keepsakes go back to the Romantic age and reflect our romantic belief in artistic genius. Yet the greatest ones are works of art themselves. Michelangelo’s sculptures, their unfinished surfaces pockmarked by his chisel, are evidence of genius at work. Personally, I feel a religious awe at these tangible marks of Michelangelo’s living presence. Great artists are immortal, and their physical being is held in their art like a face on a shroud.

That is normally something that we go to as part of a museum or exhibition commemorating a famous artist. These displays often feature artifacts such as paint brushes, easel, palettes, perhaps an apron, an even an example of a still life or other favorite subject matter.

But would we want to own something that was used by one of our favorite painters?

Certainly the folks at Chiswick Auctions hope so. They are putting up for sale a pair of Francis Bacon’s painting gloves, reportedly worn while painting his series of paintings of Lucian Freud. Well, “a pair of gloves” may not be exactly correct. Yes, there are 2 gloves, but they are both left hands.

Francis Bacon 3 Studies of Lucian Freud

The 3 Studies of Lucian Freud sold at auction for $142 million in 2013. The auction house may be hoping to benefit from that association.


Read Jonathan Jones original article on the Guardian about the gloves, and the related article on the 3 Studies of Lucian Freud.

Thanks for sharing the love!
Share on facebook
Facebook
0
Share on google
Google
Share on twitter
Twitter
Share on pinterest
Pinterest
0
Share on reddit
Reddit
0

 

cozaar viagra online generic cialis generic cialis generic cialis generic cialis cozaar cozaar cozaar viagra online viagra online viagra online levitra levitra levitra levitra viagra for men viagra for men viagra for men viagra for men viagra men viagra men viagra men viagra men viagra pills viagra pills viagra pills viagra pills nasonex nasonex nasonex nasonex skelaxin skelaxin skelaxin skelaxin biaxin biaxin biaxin biaxin cozaar cozaar cozaar cozaar cozaar viagra online viagra online viagra online viagra online viagra online generic cialis generic cialis generic cialis generic cialis generic cialis levitra levitra levitra levitra levitra viagra for men viagra for men viagra for men viagra for men viagra for men viagra men viagra men viagra men viagra men viagra men viagra pills viagra pills viagra pills viagra pills viagra pills nasonex nasonex nasonex nasonex nasonex skelaxin skelaxin skelaxin skelaxin skelaxin biaxin biaxin biaxin biaxin/ cozaar cozaar cozaar cozaar cozaar viagra online viagra online viagra online viagra online generic cialis generic cialis/ generic cialis generic cialis levitra levitra levitra levitra viagra for men viagra for men viagra for men viagra for men viagra men viagra men viagra men viagra men viagra pills viagra pills viagra pills viagra pills nasonex nasonex nasonex skelaxin skelaxin biaxin biaxin