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Francis Bacon

1909–1992 · Ireland · Surrealism, Expressionism, Cubism

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. Wikipedia

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Distorted, screaming figures in claustrophobic spaces, smeared flesh and dark, intense colour.

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Works

• “Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X”, 1953 — Des Moines Art Center
• “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, 1969 — Portland Art Museum
• “Head VI”, 1949 — Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
• “Fragment of a Crucifixion”, 1950 — Van Abbemuseum
• “Triptych, May–June 1973”, 1973
• “Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion”, 1944 — National Gallery
• “Triptych–August 1972”, 1972 — Tate
• “Three Studies for a Crucifixion”, 1962 — Guggenheim Museum
• “Portrait of George Dyer Talking”, 1966
• “Study for a Self-Portrait – Triptych, 1985-86”, 1980s — Marlborough Fine Art
• “Second Version of Triptych 1944”, 1988 — Tate
• “Head I”, 1947 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “Blood on the Floor”, 1986
• “Three Studies for a Self-Portrait”, 1979 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “Head III”, 1949
• “Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake)”, 1955 — Tate
• “Three Studies for the Portrait of Henrietta Moraes”, 1963 — Museum of Modern Art
• “Figure with Meat”, 1954 — Art Institute of Chicago
• “Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe”, 1968
• “Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho”, 1967 — Neue Nationalgalerie
• “Three Studies of Muriel Belcher”, 1966
• “Three Figures in a Room”, 1964 — Centre Pompidou
• “Head II”, 1949 — Ulster Museum
• “Figure in a Landscape”, 1945 — National Gallery
• “Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud”, 1967

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