YAN PEI-MING – WANTED
2025-02-24This new body of work by Franco-Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming is about the dynamics of desire. The small portrait presented in the gallery’s first room is the starting point of the exhibition: it is painted after Lucien Freud’s 1952 portrait of fellow artist and friend Francis Bacon, which was stolen in Berlin in 1988 never to be found – at least to this day. Portraiture is the cornerstone of Yan Pei-Ming’s practice. Best known for his epic, large-scale monochromatic renditions of iconic figures, ranging from popes to emperors and world leaders, he explores the representation of the human spirit
through the medium of portraiture.
Opposite – Wanted Francis Bacon, 2025
Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2025
MASSIMODECARLO
16 Clifford Street
W1S 3RG
London
