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As the MoMa in New York recently announced the selling of Francis Bacon’s masterpiece Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes for around $30m, it’s impossible not to recall the painter’s incredible studio. We say incredible since this was a really small and cluttered room, in which the Irish painter was able to create most of most spectacular works.
Originally located at Reece Mews in London, the studio unbelievably still exists. It was relocated to Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin in 2001, and meticulously recreated by a team of archaeologists and curators: over 7,000 items were found and catalogued!
Bacon's circular mirror gives a sense of space to the room, and it is likely tha artist designed it himself: in fact, Bacon was also a furniture maker in the first part of his career.
