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Paintings. Bacon's career spanned over six decades. Discover highlights such as Painting 1946, 1946 and trace his stylistic developments. Francis Bacon, Painting 1946, 1946. Collection: Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish -born British [1] figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. [2] .
Apr 28, 1992 · Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends.
Apr 28, 1992 · Francis Bacon produced some of the most iconic images of wounded and traumatized humanity in post-war art. Borrowing inspiration from Surrealism, film, photography, and the Old Masters, he forged a distinctive style that made him one of the most widely recognized exponents of figurative art in the 1940s and 1950s.
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) 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, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) 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, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
Francis Bacon was an Irish artist and one of the most unique, engaging figurative painters to emerge during the post-war period. View Francis Bacon’s 3,572 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Three Studies for Self-Portrait. Francis Bacon British, born Ireland. 1979. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 601. As Bacon remarked to British art critic David Sylvester in 1975, "I loathe my own face . . .
From the mid-1940s his work met with critical success, establishing his reputation. Today, he is recognised as one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. Francis Bacon Painting 1978. Oil on canvas.
Head I is the earliest of the six portrait-format works included in Bacon’s first exhibition at Erica Brausen’s Hanover Gallery, London, in 1949. The artist’s use of white lines to create a box or interior frame within the composition would characterize his work for the next forty years.
