Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X By Francis Bacon

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22.10.2006 …

By MMaxi

Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) (Des Moines)

Completed, and delivered to the Beaux-Arts gallery in February 1953, of Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Bacon said "I wanted to paint a head as if folded in on itself, like the folds of a curtain. The Titian Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto (c.1551-1562) is often cited as an ancestor to this device.

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Anglo-Irish figurative painter. He was a collateral descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork was well-known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery.

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10/22/2006 15:59

Hijoao, I'm enjoy to meet you here, with Bacon... It's a great pleasure to visit here on you space MMAXI painters who are for me really importants. So nice to meet you world here, and to find here friends of me...

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10/22/2006 01:19

both paintings are greatbut bacon puts here a lot in the pope.. it's like all mankind saying no to that god..even the pope is desperate crying / horrified.. that's the way I look at this painting..reality ..if you look this was in the 50's..this more powerfull & subtil than picasso's guernica because of the religious figure of the pope.

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