Bacon reworked subjects to strip them to their bare essentials
the artist’s first major museum presentation outside of the United States
the traveling show was the artist’s first museum exhibition in Europe
including a series of large-scale paintings that use sourced vintage black-and-white photographs of his birthplace
colorless print defines precise perspectival lines and surface details in relief
Mark Grotjahn: Untitled (Captain America) Foggy Notion Books Bacon reworked subjects to stripThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Mark Grotjahn: Untitled (Captain America) at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, featuring the large scale, ten part drawing Untitled (Captain America) (200809). With its centrifugal radiant motif, the work synthesizes the comic book hero Captain Americaa patriotic super soldier fighting the Axis powers during World War IIinto pure, vibrating lines of force in symbolic red, white, and blue.