Francis Bacon

Bacon, Francis

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Francis Bacon was a figurative painter. His artwork is known for its bold, austere, graphic and often beautiful yet tortured imagery. Abstract figures often appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon had begun painting by his early 20s, yet he worked only sporadically and without commitment during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he worked as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs. He later admitted that his career was delayed because he had spent so long looking for a subject that would sustain his interest. 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 early 1960s that sealed his reputation as a notably bleak, world famous, chronicler of the human condition. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_%28painter%29

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Francis Bacon
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L'odeur du sang humain ne me quitte pas des yeux
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Bacon
Representative edition published 2008
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Francis Bacon 1909-1992 small portrait studies
Representative edition published 1993
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Francis Bacon
Representative edition published 1989
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Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974
Representative edition published 1975
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Francis Bacon
Representative edition published 1964
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Bacon transformations
Representative edition published 2018
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Face to face
Representative edition published 2017
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Francis Bacon, Bruce Nauman
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Francis Bacon
Representative edition published 2016
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Francis Bacon
Representative edition published 2016
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Furanshisu Bēkon ten
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Movement and gravity
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Irrational marks
Representative edition published 2011
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Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Representative edition published 2009
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La punta dell'iceberg
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A guest of honour
Representative edition published 2008
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Bacon, Freud, Mehta, Souza
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Bacon, Freud, Mehta, Souza
Representative edition published 2007
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Vis-a-vis
Representative edition published 2007
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Caged. Uncaged
Representative edition published 2003
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Van Gogh vu par Bacon
Representative edition published 2002
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