Music Obsession

And if so, to which extent do you involve yourself with and find out more about the artist's work?

My favourite artist is Francis Bacon, and I'm pretty much obsessed with his work. I try to see as many of his paintings as possible, whether it's at auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's or domestic exhibitions at art galleries at museums. I've also planned a holiday to Switzerland around a big exhibition he had there last year.

A couple of year's ago his estate published a catalogue of his complete works which took over ten years to research and publish. It was £1,000 to buy but it really is the most valuable reference and resource ever and you can really get lost in paging through the volumes.

I also started to record all his pieces I've seen in person, and so far I've seen around 80 out of 580 or so pieces. Not bad going!

Anyway, I would be interested in knowing if any other members here also have a favourite artist they're obsessed with.

Here's one of the paintings I saw in Switzerland last year:

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I'm not obsessed with a specific artist, no, but I do have an obsession with the original artwork for the 'Yellow Submarine' movie. I'm much more into contemporary and modern art (the more insane the better) than 'the old stuff' but never liked Francis Bacon (or Mark Rothko)