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| | Francis Bacon in Dublin |
 | | The acquisition of this treasure trove of Bacon's source materials - books, photographs, letters, as well as brushes, paint pots and other tools of the painter's trade - is a coup for the gallery which intends to reconstruct the studio as a permanent exhibit. |
 | | While the curators are busy cataloguing the collection, the gallery is celebrating with a major retrospective of Bacon's work. |
 | | It was a drugged, sodden ending to a life shared at the edge - and it draws from Bacon one of his most disciplined, contained works - as if the greater the emotion, the greater the pain, the greater the anguish, then the greater the art that responds. |
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