The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.
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Her efficient early Cubist leanings — she took Lhote’s clean vocabulary and made it simpler and louder — combined with a sensual monumentality into some magnificent society portraits.