Francis Bacon’s Frightening Beauty - The New Yorker
WEBMay 17, 2021 · In his “Head I” (1947-48), now in the Metropolitan Museum, in New York, we see a head sliced off just below the nose. The mouth is open, screaming, and the teeth are a mess. Bacon included ...
Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia
WEBFrancis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.
Francis Bacon - Wikipedia
WEBFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Lord Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
Study for a Portrait - Seattle Art Museum
WEBThe strands of wet hair falling over Riva’s face, closely replicated in Bacon’s small portrait Study of Henrietta Moraes (1969, Private Collection), are rendered more obliquely in Study for a Portrait, with what was becoming, by that time, a …
Francis Bacon | Head I | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBHead 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. Bacon here reduces the human form to a snarling ...
Portrait of Man with Glasses I - Seattle Art Museum
WEBThe two paintings by Francis Bacon in the Lang Collection, Portrait of Man with Glasses I (1963) and Study for a Portrait (1967), were painted four years apart and at very different scales. At first sight, they are connected only by the fact that both ultimately entered the same collection, in 1974 and 1976, respectively.
Francis Bacon | Portrait | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBPortrait is stylistically distinct from Bacon’s mature works, and contains none of the psychological torment and physical distortion evident in his later paintings. Yet the boy’s sickly face, distracted gaze, and unnaturally red shirt evoke a sense of strangeness and alienation—pervasive themes in the artist’s oeuvre.
ANATOMY OF AN ARTWORK Head VI, 1949 by Francis Bacon
WEBFeb 15, 2022 · The paintings of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) occupied an odd place between figurative art and Surrealism. Disconnected figures, altered forms and dismembered parts were presented, but with a deeply human, visceral, tactile quality.
WEBIn Hilliard’s miniature, Francis Bacon is shown with features similar to those of the Queen in Hilliard’s miniature portrait of Elizabeth made in 1572, whilst Francis’ dark brown curly hair is similar to that of Leicester.
The Many Heads of Francis Bacon | Contemporary Art | Sotheby’s
WEBNov 25, 2019 · One of Francis Bacon's most iconic works, Head, features in Sotheby's upcoming Art Contemporain Evening Sale.