{"id":48259,"date":"2020-03-23T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/?post_type=magazin-artikel&#038;p=48259"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:37:38","slug":"from-studio-to-dining-table-francis-bacon","status":"publish","type":"magazin-artikel","link":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/schirnmag\/from-studio-to-dining-table-francis-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"From studio to dining table: Francis Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/header-magazin-landscape'>\n\n<div  class='div'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid sizes-width-fill'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 margin-bottom-4 text-align-center'  data-motion-text=\"{&quot;child&quot;:&quot;.ho-sd-mag-h2&quot;,&quot;force&quot;:true,&quot;delay&quot;:0,&quot;speed&quot;:0.9,&quot;ease&quot;:&quot;expo.out&quot;}\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-mag-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">From studio to dining table: Francis Bacon<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='container-fluid mobile-margin-bottom-3 sizes-width-fill'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-4 col-md-offset-4 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-8'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'  data-motion-text=\"{&quot;child&quot;:&quot;.lazy-media-inline&quot;,&quot;force&quot;:true,&quot;delay&quot;:0.3,&quot;speed&quot;:0.9,&quot;ease&quot;:&quot;expo.out&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-flash \" style=\"\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flash-animation-data\" data-animations='[{\"id\":\"full\",\"name\":\"Full\",\"types\":[{\"name\":\"y\",\"start\":\"-5\",\"end\":\"5\"}]},{\"id\":\"in\",\"name\":\"In\",\"types\":[]},{\"id\":\"out\",\"name\":\"Out\",\"types\":[]}]' data-target=\".lazy-media-contents\" data-animationsmobile='[{\"id\":\"full\",\"name\":\"Full\",\"types\":[{\"name\":\"y\",\"start\":\"-5\",\"end\":\"5\"}]},{\"id\":\"in\",\"name\":\"In\",\"types\":[]},{\"id\":\"out\",\"name\":\"Out\",\"types\":[]}]'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<flash-animation inline-template>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flash-animation\" :class=\"classes\" ref=\"layer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_Q7Q1bn\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 48253,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"bacon1-300x200.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":200,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":22576},\"large\":{\"file\":\"bacon1-1024x682.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":682,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":184870},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"bacon1-768x512.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":512,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":110945},\"small\":{\"file\":\"bacon1-440x293.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":293,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":42622},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"bacon1-580x387.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":387,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":68568},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"bacon1-720x480.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":480,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":98614},\"original\":{\"file\":\"bacon1.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":853}},\n\"alt\" : \"An older man in a leather jacket stands in a kitchen with photos on the wall, looking at the camera.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:67%; 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A look into the kitchens of the art world, starting with Francis Bacon\u2019s cookbook collection and a bathtub with a view.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Alice Waters, chef and co-founder of the famous Californian slow food restaurant Chez Panisse, describes the relationship between cooking and art as follows: \u201cThe most literal visceral connection we make is with food\u2026 The acts of art-making and cooking align in many ways; both reactive and creative, they mimic and accommodate one another.\u201d<br><br>So, is there a connection between what happens in artists\u2019 studios and what goes on in their kitchens? Amid all the pots and pans, can we find points of references to their work and their personalities? Are artists particularly creative when it comes to the everyday act of cooking? Through photos and inventories of their kitchens, as well as anecdotes relating to their eating habits, we will try to gain an insight into the culinary worlds of some well-known artists. Let\u2019s start with Francis Bacon, his extraordinarily creative use of cookbooks and his bathtub with a view of the fridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 ho-pattern-optional-button padding-top-4'>\n\n<div  class='wp-block-ho-buttons '>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-buttons-item\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.de\/\"  target=\"\" role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ho-button is-primary mobile-full-width\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ho-button-label \">Lorem Ipsum<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/text-magazin-zitat'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='row center-xs'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1'>\n<h4 class='ho-sd-mag-h3 mag-quote-title' style=\"white-space: normal;\">\u201cThe most literal visceral connection we make is with food\u2026 The acts of art-making and cooking align in many ways [\u2026]\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='padding-top-5'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body-small'>Alice Waters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/text-medien-bild-text-links-grosses-bild-rechts-option-headline'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6  mobile-margin-bottom-4'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4 ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem Ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>The first floor of a former coach house in London\u2019s South Kensington, which had been converted into a small, two-bedroom apartment, was home to Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon for more than thirty years. The kitchen and bathroom were condensed into one space, while one room served as a sleeping and living space and the other was Bacon\u2019s studio. Looking at the images of his spartan, functional kitchen \u2013 a simple gas oven tucked between two battered worktops, a bathtub and wash basin of the most inconspicuous kind, illuminated by one single, naked lightbulb \u2013 it seems hard to imagine that at the end of the 1920s the artist made his living as a furniture and interior designer in Paris. <br><br>His first studio was furnished in a modern style and served as a presentation space for his designs: Corbusier-like furniture made of steel and glass and rugs with geometric patterns that he hung on the wall. At that time painting was merely a side-occupation for Bacon at that time, but he soon decided to dedicate himself to the medium entirely. After a short phase of abstraction in the predominant style of the post-war period, he developed his own figurative pictorial language, which enabled his breakthrough as an artist.<br><br>At first glance, Bacon\u2019s kitchen gives no clues to the identity of its owner. Most of the objects might be found in any working-class home in England of that time, and it\u2019s only on closer inspection that the illustrations tacked to the wall above the worktops become noticeable, showing some of Bacon\u2019s grotesque, almost surrealist-seeming portraits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 col-xs-offset-2 col-xs-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<figure itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t\t<img\n\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/art\/2016\/05\/18\/Francis_Bacon_in_his_studio_in_London_in_1974_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqkB6NGcx1p0Y6SxevG-oALZauXawUznerYFjnxU0dfYk.jpg?imwidth=1920\"\n\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"external-image-class\"\n\t\t\/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\n<figcaption id=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Francis Bacon in his London studio, 1974<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/art\/artists\/francis-bacon-in-the-studio\/\">telegraph.co.uk<\/a>, Photographer: Michael Holtz<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern ' data-pattern='ho\/medien-bild-zwei-bilder-mittel-mittel'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-5 col-xs-11 mobile-margin-bottom-5'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<figure itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t\t<img\n\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/media.worldofinteriors.com\/photos\/68f8c67734630a58096cbf16\/4:3\/w_1920,c_limit\/bacon-studio-2.jpg\"\n\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"external-image-class\"\n\t\t\/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\n<figcaption id=\"media_3gzU3J\">\n\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Francis Bacon&#8217;s studio<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofinteriors.com\/story\/francis-bacon-south-kensington-studio\">worldofinteriors.com<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-11 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-5 col-md-offset-1'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<figure itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_mJVyHD\">\n\t\t<img\n\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/media.worldofinteriors.com\/photos\/68f8c6fc72c34cd59dd7fe16\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/bacon-studio-4.jpg\"\n\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"external-image-class\"\n\t\t\/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t\n\n<figcaption id=\"media_mJVyHD\">\n\t<div class=\"figcaption-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Francis Bacon&#8217;s studio<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldofinteriors.com\/story\/francis-bacon-south-kensington-studio\">worldofinteriors.com<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Lorem ipsum<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>On the table between the bathtub and the fridge sits a pile of Bacon\u2019s cookbooks, one of them is \u201cMrs. Beeton\u2019s Book of Household Management\u201d, an extensive manual on the right way to manage a Victorian household. Bacon owned more than 40 cookbooks, among them four different versions of \u201cFrench Country Cooking\u201d by Elisabeth David. Yet his own household could not be further from the reality that Mrs. Beeton describes \u2013 the manual includes a chapter on dealing with cooks, butlers and chauffeurs. Bacon wasn\u2019t a particularly ambitious cook, but he studied the illustrations in his books meticulously, fascinated by the color, texture and suggestive power of various types of foods. He collected images like those of different cuts of pork and used them as points of reference. Even as a child, Bacon had felt magically drawn to butcher shops and the pieces of meat displayed there, and the motif of the hanging animal carcass appears time and again in his work.<br><br>Although he didn\u2019t usually put his cookbooks to their intended use (one of the copies of \u201cFrench Country Cooking\u201d served him as an unconventional palette), Bacon was not averse to good cuisine, in fact quite the opposite was true. In the company of his lover and mentor Eric Hall, he is said to have learned to appreciate good food, and the two years he spent in Paris cemented his love of French cuisine. Many of the nights Bacon spent in revelry began with oysters and champagne at the Ritz and ended in obscure cellar bars \u2013 symbolic, in a way, of the often contradictory aspects of his own life. Hence, his kitchen, too, tells only part of his story: The artist continued to live there in humble surroundings, even when his paintings were already selling for millions.<br><br>Francis Bacon\u2019s studio, originally located in his home at 7 Reece Mews in London, has had a new address in his hometown of Dublin since 1998. 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