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Figure in a Landscape is a 1945 painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon.Based on a photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in Hyde Park, also the basis of another painting, Figure in a Landscape (1945), which was bought by Diana Watson and later in 1950 by the Tate Gallery with the support of Graham Sutherland, then a trustee (1948–1954).
Triptych 1987 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London) (large triptych) c.1988. Blood on Pavement (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection) [81] 1988. Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London ...
Head IV, sometimes subtitled Man with a Monkey, is a 1949 painting by Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon, one of series of works made in 1949 for his first one-man exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, in London. It measures 82 by 66 centimetres (32 in × 26 in) and is held in a private collection.
The Wrestlers after Muybridge, 1980, francis-bacon.com; David Sylvester on Francis Bacon: Text of David Sylvester’s 2001 lecture on the artist; Two Figures on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, francis-bacon.com, 5 October 2017 "Jealous Lucian Freud locked away Francis Bacon bargain", The Times, 29 January 2018 "Freud hid Bacon masterpiece ...
Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.
This work was the first painting Bacon was happy with and was an instant critical success. The themes it explores reoccur and are re-examined in many of his later panels and triptychs. The Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) painted 28 known large triptychs between 1944 and 1985–86. [1]
Head I is a relatively small oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon.Completed in 1948, it is the first in a series of six heads, the remainder of which were painted the following year in preparation for a November 1949 exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London. [1]
Study for Portrait II, 1955.Tate Britain, London. Study for Portrait II (subtitled after the Life Mask of William Blake) is a small 1955 oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, one of a series of six portraits completed after viewing that year the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake's (b. 1757) life mask at the National Portrait Gallery ...