Francis Bacon: The First Pope Eliot Weinberger Ed Ruscha created Bow-Tie Teardrop

Ed Ruscha created Bow-Tie Teardrop in collaboration with Universal Limited Art Editions

It includes ten blank folded notecards featuring etchings by Brown and envelopes

Depicting brilliantly hued orchids

among others

Much of Gehry’s genius can be found in his drawings

Francis Bacon: The First Pope Eliot Weinberger Ed Ruscha created Bow-Tie TeardropThis book was published on the occasion of Francis Bacon: The First Pope at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. The exhibition presented Bacons painting Landscape with Pope Dictator (c. 1946) for the first time publicly. The painting is the artists first treatment of the papal image, a subject that would preoccupy him on and off for at least two decades. Landscape with Pope Dictator entered a private collection in 1967 and was only rediscovered during