The Monaco Media Library receives a work by Francis Bacon
THEtable dated 1973 is hung in the main consultation room, on the ground floor of the library.
A new work of art has entered the Principality. Majid Boustany, president of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, donated a painting by British painter Francis Bacon on Tuesday, October 5, to the Monaco Media Library. It was in the presence of Mayor Georges Marsan, his Deputy Camille Svara, Delegate at the Monaco Media Library, the Curator of the Media Library, Béatrice Novaretti, and the Secretary General of the Town Hall, Hélène Zaccabri, that the event took place. hooking up. The work is now decorated in the main consultation room of the Louis Notari Library, located on the ground floor.
The painter’s love for the Principality
Table, Study of the human body (man turning on the light), completed in 1973, is a color giclée print on aluminum backing. The donation of this work, through the foundation of Majid Boustany, testifies to the love of the British painter for the Principality, where he settled in 1946. The foundation also pays particular attention to the period. during which Francis Bacon lived and worked in Monaco and France.
More information on the website of the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation.