Francis Bacon and The Masters opens at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

It is already claiming 5 star reviews and it hasn't even launched yet. But the national press are bound to be all over such a high-profile exhibition.  It opens to the public on Saturday and already ticket bookings have been flying for this highly anticipated show. With loans of works from The Hermitage in St Petersburg this promises to be a block-buster of the same calibre as Masterpieces.

I am gong to the Press preview and will update with a review when I have seen the exhibition.

Measnwhile, this talk will be 

Francis Bacon and the Masters
Opening Panel and Live Review

Tuesday 21 April 6.15pm
Elizabeth Fry Lecture 1.02
Price £8/£6 concessions
NUA and UEA students are FREE!

Join three panellists chaired by UEA academic Simon Dell for an evening of lively discussion and analysis of Francis Bacon and the Masters. Contemporary painter Robert Priseman, whose works converse closely with those by Francis

Bacon will be joined by Martin Hammer leading academic on Francis Bacon and British Modernism, and by Tate Curator
Carol Jacobi, expert in the field.

An event not to be missed. Tickets are selling fast but it would be great to have NUA and UEA students and they can come for FREE!