Head II
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Head II is an oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, from 1948. It the second in a series of six heads, painted from the winter of 1948 in pre
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.