Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1909–1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his emotionally charged raw imagery and fixation on personal motifs. Best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends, his abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical cages which give them vague 3D, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon said that he saw images in series, and his work, which numbers c. 590 extant paintings along with many others he destroyed
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Exhibition: ‘London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Centre, Los Angeles
‘Sketch for ‘Figure in a Landscape’’, Francis Bacon, c.1960 | Tate
Francis Bacon. Study for Portrait, Number IV (After the Life Mask of William Blake). 1956 | MoMA
CECIL BEATON (1904-1980) , Francis Bacon in his studio, 1960 | Christie's
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