Artist
Francis Bacon
1909–1992 · Irish-born British
Francis Bacon built a postwar figurative language around distorted bodies, enclosed spaces and images drawn from photography, film and art history. Velázquez, Muybridge, medical imagery and press photographs recur as sources that Bacon transformed through paint.
Painting
Major Works
- 1944Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion →
- 1946Painting 1946 →
- 1953Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X →
- 1953Two Figures →
- 1957Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh VI →
- 1962Three Studies for a Crucifixion →
- 1968Portrait of George Dyer in a Mirror →
- 1973Triptych May–June 1973 →
- 1979–80Three Studies for a Self-Portrait →
- 1981Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus →
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo