In his studio at 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, London, artist Francis Bacon, with a smile on his lips and a fever in his body, is passionately questioned by Pierre Koralnik, then a young film director at TSR. Produced for the program Continents sans visa, this short film immortalizes a particular moment in the artist's career, as he prepares to produce his first triptych, a painting format that would become very dear to him. Inspired by Picasso, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Buñuel, his painting is a painting of flesh and sensations, blood-and-gold colored. His eyes misted with alcohol, twirling among the sketches, Francis Bacon mischievously replies “[w]hat's ‘vultures’ en français?”
Justine Roh