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Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86. Oil on canvas, each panel 198cm x 147.5cm. Marlborough Fine Art, London. Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 is a triptych painted between 1985 and 1986 by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon. It is a brutally honest examination of the effect of age and time on the human body ...
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Lord Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
Three Studies for a Self-Portrait, 1979–80, 37.5 x 31.8cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three Studies for a Self-Portrait is an oil-on-canvas triptych painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon. Two of paintings are signed and dated 1979, and the third signed and dated 1979–1980.
Study for Self-Portrait (1964), which grafts Bacon’s squidgily rendered head onto his close friend Lucien Freud’s body, is a reminder of how hit-and-miss Bacon’s technique could be even in ...
Portrait of Francis Bacon. The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method. The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New Method', to replace the old methods put forward in Aristotle's Organon.
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through ...
Comparing the panels to Giorgione's self-portrait in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, art critic John Russell wrote, "This is the most ... that can be said in painting at this time about human beauty". [2] It was sold at auction in 2022 for £24.3 million after being at the Museum of Modern Art as part of The William S. Paley ...