ARTIST TO ARTIST: ROBERT GELLER VS. FRANCIS BACON
Robert Geller graduated from Rhode Island School of design in 2001. Combining a multitude of influences including romantic, dandyism and rock and roll, he uses the finest textiles and Japanese manufacturing to bring mens wear into the spotlight by redefining the rules. Robert Geller is the 2011 winner of the CFDA Swarovski Award for innovative menswear.
Francis Bacon: Study for a Portrait, after the life mask of William Blake, 1955
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992), was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs. Later, he admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent too long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest. His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and it was this work and his heads and figures of the late 1940s through to the mid 1950s that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak chronicler of the human condition.
Francis Bacon: Painting (Head of Man) 1950
ROBERT GELLER - MANFRED SWEATER
in black
DETAILS: This 100% Wool turtleneck sweater features a cable knit torso with arms done in a stockinette stitch with a vertical knit band at the hem and cuffs. Two buttons along the side seams which can be unbuttoned for a relaxed style. Medium weight and very warm. Wear this sweater under your fall or winter coat and you will surely stay warm.
$626
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