Portrait of a Man with Glasses III, 1963

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" Well, of course, we are meat, we are potencial carcasses. If I go into a butcher's shop I always think it's surprising that I wasn't there instead of the animal." Francis Bacon

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Three Figures and a Portrait, 1975

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Paralytic child walking on all fours ( from Muybridge )

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Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), 1961Francis Bacon In Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), a naked body on hands and feet is finding its way around a bare space. Human or animal? The ambiguity creates tension and...

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Three Studies of Henrietta Moraes, 1969

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Henrietta MoraesFrom the 1960s on, Bacon regularly painted portraits of his drinking cronies. Moraes said she had been the subject of more than twenty, including the 1969 triptych entitled Three Studies of Henrietta Moraes. Bacon met Henrietta Moraes...

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Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966

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Isabel Rawsthorne (1912 - 1992)also known as Isabel Lambert, was a model and painter. Isabel Nichols was born in the east end of London, but brought up in Liverpool where she studied at the Liverpool School of Art. Jacob Epstein used her as a model in...

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"The human Figure in motion:" 1965"

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Francis Bacon From muybridge " The Human Figure in Motion: Women Emptying a bowl of water / Paralytic child walking on all fours."

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Self Portrait 1978

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Francis Bacon once said: " I think it's the slight remove from fact, which returns me onto the fact more violently.Through the photographic image I find myself beginning to wander into the image and unlock what I think of as its reality more than I can...

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Francis Bacon

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Study for Portrait on Folding Bed 1963 Oil on canvassupport: 1981 x 1473 mm frame: 2198 x 1690 x 82 mmpainting Purchased 1963 The body is often highly distorted in Bacon’s paintings. In this picture, for example, parts of the head and lower body are almost...

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Francis Bacon

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Untitled ( reclining figure ) 1960

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Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh V 1957

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Painting Title: Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh V 1957Francis BaconFamous Irish born English artist - 20th Century Painter About the Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh V PaintingFrancis Bacon did several versions of the Vincent van Gogh painting.

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