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Francis Bacon, SelfPortrait 1971; Oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches Musee National d'Art Moderne

Francis Bacon Painting 1946 Not on view Created in the immediate aftermath of World War II, Painting is an oblique but damning image of an anonymous public figure. The umbrella that partially obscures him might refer to Neville Chamberlain, the prewar British prime minister who was known for carrying one.


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Francis Bacon, né le 28 octobre 1909 à Dublin et mort le 28 avril 1992 à Madrid, est un peintre irlandais 1 réputé pour ses triptyques dont l'un est le plus cher du monde, Trois études de Lucian Freud .


Francis Bacon, Three Figures and Portrait, 1975. Francis bacon, Art, Painting

In 2013, Francis Bacon's painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142 million, setting the world record (since surpassed) for the most expensive painting sold at auction.His second-and.


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Order Oil Painting reproduction Article Wikipedia article References The British, Irish-born painter Francis Bacon is one among the most important painters of the 20th century. Bacon was born in Dublin on 28 October 1909 to English parents who have recently moved to Ireland.


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4. He was allergic to animals. Bacon was fascinated by animals (over his career he painted monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, dogs, owls, bulls, elephants, rhinos) but he was effectively allergic to most of them. Dogs and horses were a trigger for his asthma and although he painted dogs, horses are notably absent in his work.


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Head I is the earliest of the six portrait-format works included in Bacon's first exhibition at Erica Brausen's Hanover Gallery, London, in 1949. The artist's use of white lines to create a box or interior frame within the composition would characterize his work for the next forty years.


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The 2019 edition of the Extra! Festival, devoted to non-book literature, will organise several evenings around Bacon (readings, performances, projected, visual or digital literature, sound poetry, etc.) The exhibition Francis Bacon : Books and Painting will be shown from February 23rd to May 25th 2020 at the Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston. Mort.


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Francis Bacon Irish-British Painter Born: October 28, 1909 - Dublin, Ireland Died: April 28, 1992 - Madrid, Spain School of London Expressionism British Art Summary Useful Resources Similar Art and Related Pages


Hidden for Decades, Francis Bacon’s Tragic Final Pope Painting Will Go on Sale at Christie’s London

Many of Bacon's early paintings are based on images by other artists, which he distorts for his own expressive purposes. Examples of such themes are the screaming nanny from Sergey Eisenstein's film Potemkin and studies of the human figure in motion by the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge.Most of Bacon's paintings depict isolated figures, often framed by geometric.


Francis Bacon, "SECOND VERSION OF PAINTING 1946". Bukowskis

Bacon photographed in the early 1950s Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 - 28 April 1992) was an Irish NOTE this formulation ("Irish-born British") has been agreed by consensus; please raise on the talk page if you want to change it. --> [1] figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.


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Catalogue entry. Francis Bacon 1909-1992. Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV 1957. T00226. Oil on canvas 1524 x 1168 mm (60 x 46) Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1958. Provenance: Purchased from the artist through the Hanover Gallery, London by the R.J. Sainsbury Discretionary Fund and presented to CAS 1957. Exhibited:


Study for Self Portrait, 1963 Francis Bacon Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon Self Portrait, Matthew

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 - 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures..


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Painting 1946, also known as Painting or Painting (1946), is an oil-on-linen painting by the Irish -born artist Francis Bacon. It was originally intended to depict a chimpanzee in long grass (parts of which may be still visible); Bacon then attempted to paint a bird of prey landing in a field.


Francis Bacon Triptych Makes 142.4 M., Record for Art at Auction Observer

Head VI, 1949. 93.2 × 76.5 cm (36.7 × 30.1 in), Arts Council collection, Hayward Gallery, London. Head VI is an oil-on-canvas painting by Irish-born figurative artist Francis Bacon, the last of six panels making up his "1949 Head" series.It shows a bust view of a single figure, modeled on Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X.Bacon applies forceful, expressive brush strokes, and places.


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Francis Bacon The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 20 January - 19 February 1955 Bacon's first retrospective, consisting of thirteen paintings, was mounted by the ICA in London. Francis Bacon Galerie Rive Droite, Paris 12 February - 10 March 1957 Bacon's first solo exhibition in Paris.


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Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Francis Bacon: Paintings 1945-1982, June-November 1983, pp. 52 and 85, no. 24 (illustrated in color). Paris, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Francis Bacon. Peintures récentes, January-February 1984, p. 33, no. 2 (illustrated in color).