Who painted “Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X”?

“Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X” was painted by Francis Bacon in 1953. Where to see it: Des Moines Art Center.

Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X — Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon: distorted, screaming figures in claustrophobic spaces, smeared flesh and dark, intense colour.

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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“Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, 1969
“Head VI”, 1949
“Fragment of a Crucifixion”, 1950
“Triptych, May–June 1973”, 1973
“Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion”, 1944
“Triptych–August 1972”, 1972
“Three Studies for a Crucifixion”, 1962
“Portrait of George Dyer Talking”, 1966