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    Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)

    Wei Yu

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021

    YouTube

    1:19:04 · 4.8M views · Feb 4, 2017

    A BBC documentary on Francis Bacon, the loud, hard-drinking British painter, drawing on people who knew him. It explores the haunted man behind the Roaring Boy persona.

    HN commenters recommend it as a well-made, interesting and sad documentary on Bacon's troubled life.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @panteliskFeb 2021· in “Francis Bacon: Revelations review – a landmark biography”

      The art style of Francis Bacon is fantastic, but the troubled life he led is maybe even more intriguing, mysterious and dark. For those curious, here's a very well done documentary on Francis by BBC - this video (warning, graphic themes)

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    2. @GatskyMar 2021· in “A history of the art market in 35 record-breaking sales (2016)”

      Huh, Fancis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud is the most expensive on the list at $89 million. I can't comprehend these dollar numbers, but it's a stunning painting. There is a good doco about Bacon's life on YT: this video

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    3. @throwaway29303May 2021· in “Francis Bacon’s Frightening Beauty”

      I had this morbid curiosity about Bacon's work and life a long while ago and I happened to find a YouTube documentary[0] about him. Pretty interesting and sad at the same time. It's worth a watch, IMO. [0] - this video

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