Iconic figurative artist Francis Bacon is set for the posthumous launch of his Invisible Rooms exhibition at Tate Liverpool this week.
Irish born Bacon will feature as the Albert Dock gallery’s guest summer artist, with the exhibition set to be the largest ever display of his work in the north of England.
The Tate’sshowing of Bacon’s work will not be his first appearance in the city, having been involved in the John Moores Painting Prize in the 1960s.
The exhibition will feature around 30 original paintings, as well as a number of never seen before drawings and sketches by Bacon.
Bacon is widely regarded as one of the most influential British painters of the Twentieth Century, with his painting Three Studies of Lucien Freud setting a previous world record art sale in 2013.