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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.
- 1930S
In the early 1930s Bacon began to concentrate on painting,...
- 1980S
During the 1980s Bacon exhibited in prestigious institutions...
- 1960S
In 1962 Bacon was honoured with a retrospective at Tate...
- 1950S
Bacon memorably described the gaunt figure in Vincent Van...
- 1990S
''Francis Bacon' Tate Britain 11 September 2008-4 January...
- Life
'Francis Bacon and the tradition of art: Kunsthistorisches...
- Painting 1946
The information in the present section on francis-bacon.com...
- 1930S
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.
- British, Irish
- October 28, 1909
- Dublin, Ireland
- April 28, 1992
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- Late Years and Death
- The Legacy of Francis Bacon
Born in Dublin, Francis Bacon was named after his famous ancestor, the English philosopher and scientist. His father, Edward, served in the army and later took a job in the War Office during World War I. In an interview with critic David Sylvester, Bacon attributed the connotations of violence in his paintings to the turbulent circumstances of his ...
Bacon moved into a London apartment in the late 1920s and became involved with interior and furniture design. One of his patrons, the artist Roy de Maistre, became a mentor to Bacon and encouraged him to take up oil painting. Bacon modeled his early work after Picasso and the Surrealists, whose work he had seen on a trip to Paris. In 1933, Bacon ex...
His breakout success at the 1944 exhibition gained him further opportunities to show with Lefevre. Graham Sutherland, a friend and fellow exhibitor, also recommended him to the director of Hanover Gallery, where Bacon had his first solo exhibition in 1949. For this show Bacon painted a series entitled Heads, significant for being the first series t...
After the Paris exhibition Bacon moved increasingly toward self-portraiture, claiming, "people around me have been dying like flies and there is nothing else to paint but myself." Continuing to work steadily, he also completed a number of paintings in tribute to Dyer's memory. Many of these took the form of large format triptychs, including the wel...
Bacon's unique interpretations and the intensely personal nature of his work make it difficult to visually trace his influence in contemporary art. Nevertheless, his paintings have inspired some of the most standout artists of this generation, including Julian Schnabel and Damien Hirst. John Edwards, who inherited the estate, played an important ro...
- Irish-British
- October 28, 1909
- Dublin, Ireland
- April 28, 1992
- British
- Sotheby's London. Est. 5,000,000–7,000,000 GBP.
- Nicholas Gallery. Price on Request.
- Van der Vorst- Art. 60,000 EUR.
- Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers. Est. 100,000–100,000 DKK.
Figure with Meat. 1954. Francis Bacon. English, born Ireland, 1909–1992. Permeated by anguished visions of humanity, Francis Bacon’s paintings embody the existential ethos of the postwar era. In his powerful, nihilistic works, tormented and deformed figures become players in dark, unresolved dramas. Bacon often referred in his paintings to ...
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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.
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.
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