Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) began painting in London in 1929. He produced many controversial images of 20th century painting.

Important paintings include:

- Triptych, 1972 held in the Tate Collection, London, UK

- Pope II, 1951 held in Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992), was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.[1]Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs. Later, he admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent too long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest.[2] His breakthrough came with the 1944 triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, and it was this work and his heads and figures of the late 1940s through to the mid 1950s that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak chronicler of the human condition.

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Exhibits by Francis Bacon

Pope II
Pope II, 1951 painted by Francis Bacon is held in Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany.
Painting, 20th century
Francis Bacon
Triptych
Triptych, 1972 painted by Francis Bacon is held in the Tate Collection, London, UK.
Painting, 20th century
Francis Bacon