Controversial Francis Bacon Crucifixion Drawings Go On Display In London Church

Last year a Gallery in Mayfair exhibited a selection of drawings and collages from the Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino collection of works by Francis Bacon. It created quite a stir in the press, as the collection remains unauthenticated by the Bacon estate and rejected as fakes by the author of the new catalogue raisonné.


Francis Bacon and the Crucifixion

Lectures by internationally known art critic and historian, Edward Lucie Smith and St. Stephen Walbrook's priest-in-charge, Revd Jonathan Evens.


FRANCIS BACON CRUCIFIXIONS @ST STEPHEN WALBROOK – LONDON

For Lent 2017 St Stephen Walbrook is exhibiting Crucifixion drawings by Francis Bacon from “The Francis Bacon Collection of the drawings donated to Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino”. Between 1977 and 1992 Francis Bacon donated to an intimate Italian friend a considerable number of drawings, pastels and collages. Today those drawings are part of a collection which has previously been exhibited in Bologna, Venezia, London, Madrid, Zurich, Buenos Aires, Twain and Treviso among other locations