All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life - Tate Britain (until 27 August 2018)

Jenny Saville, Reverse, 2002-3

All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life is at Tate Britain until 27 August 2018
Edited extract from Tate Press Release :

 All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life showcases around 100 works by some of the most celebrated modern British artists, with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon at its heart. It  reveals how their art captures personal and immediate experiences and events, distilling raw sensations through their use of paint, as Freud said: ‘I want the paint to work as flesh does’. Bringing together major works by Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, Jenny Saville, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and many others, this exhibition makes poignant connections across generations of artists and tells an expanded story of figurative painting in the 20th century.

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Walter Richard Sickert, Nuit d'Ete, c1906

Lucian Freud, Girl With a White Dog, 1950-51

F.N. Souza, Mr Sebastian, 1955

Francis Bacon Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966

Euan Uglow, Georgia, 1973

Francis Bacon, Three Figures and a Portrait, 1975

Michael Andrews, Melanie and Me Swimming, 1978-79

Paula Rego, The Family, 1988

Paula Rego, Bride, 1994

Lucian Freud, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, 1996

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Coterie of Questions, 2015

Reviews:
Tim Adams (The Observer)
Waldemar Januszczak (blog/Sunday Times)
Matthew Collings (Evening Standard)
Martin Gayford (The Spectator)
Jackie Wullschlager (Financial Times)
Karen Wright (Independent)
Louisa Buck (The Telegraph)
Emily Spicer (Studio International)