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Study from Innocent X is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon, from 1962.It is held in a private collection. [1] Based on the Portrait of Innocent X by Diego Velázquez, the work depicts a distorted image of the red-robed pope, sitting on a dark red chair on a platform inside a cuboid cage indicated by thin black lines, standing on a light brownish yellow ...
Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe is a 1968 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Francis Bacon.. It is the second of two similarly titled paintings based on nude photographs of his close friend Henrietta Moraes, who is shown in a reclining position on a bed, themselves part of a wider series of collapsed figures on beds that began with the 1963 triptych Lying Figure ...
Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London) [81] Jet of Water (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomlinson Hill, New York) [81] Second Version of Triptych 1944 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)
Bacon's palette changed in 1953, and his paintings became darker. The earlier blues were replaced by velvet purples, and his overall tone became more nocturnal. The soft-focus and filled-in backgrounds disappeared, replaced by flat dark spaces, which in some cases were merely the untreated blank canvas. [ 12 ]
Sir Francis Bacon by Paul van Somer I (1617), Palace on the Isle in Warsaw.. Paul van Somer (c. 1577 – 1621), also known as Paulus van Somer, was a Flemish artist who arrived in England from Antwerp during the reign of King James I of England and became one of the leading painters of the royal court.
We couldn’t help but notice his preferred walking shoe, and did some minor internet sleuthing to find the exact make and model. Bacon is wearing On Running Cloud 5 sneakers for his Sunday stroll ...
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 after Velázquez (1950) by Francis Bacon. Study after Velázquez is a large 1950 panel painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon.After Head VI, it is the second of Bacon's long series of paintings influenced by Diego Velázquez's 1650 Portrait of Innocent X. [1]