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This exhibition brings together two of the great artists linked to the so-called “London School”, Francis Bacon (Dublin, 1909 - Madrid, 1992) and Lucian Freud (Berlin, 1922 - London, 2011) who met in the British capital and forged a friendship with a common denominator: the vindication of figuration in their work against the dominant abstraction. The works selected for this exhibition provide an overview of the graphic production of these two artists and show us the different approaches each one took to printmaking.
In Bacon and Freud's body of work, the portrait is recurrent and it is …