Francis Bacon (artist)
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Francis Bacon 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, an
Bacon in the early 1950s
Crucifixion (1933)
Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963
Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X, 1650. Although Bacon avoided seeing the original, it remained the painting that most affected him, and one to which he referred over and over.
Fragment of a Crucifixion
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Fragment of a Crucifixion is an unfinished 1950 painting by the Irish-born figurative painter Francis Bacon. It shows two animals engaged in an existential struggle; the upper figure, which may be a d
Still from Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin. Bacon called the image a catalyst for his work and incorporated the shape of the mouth when painting the chimaera.
Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (centre panel), c. 1512–16. Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, Alsace
Peter Paul Rubens, Descent from the Cross (centre panel), 1612–1614