Francis Bacon

Celebrated for his visceral portraits, Francis Bacon produced some of art history’s most powerful images of the human condition. In a career spanning almost the entire 20th century, he asked whether it was possible to seal the raw pulsations of the flesh in paint.

Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909. Inspired by travels to Berlin and Paris during the 1920s, he started his career as

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Three Studies of Lucian Freud

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Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards

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Portrait of George Dyer Talking

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Figure in Movement

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Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer

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Triptych 1974-1977

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Triptych 1986-7

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Study for Portrait

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Portrait of Henrietta Moraes

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Seated Figure

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Self-Portrait

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Three Studies for Self-Portrait

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Study for Self-Portrait

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Portrait of Henrietta Moraes

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Three Studies for Self-Portrait

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Study for a Portrait

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Three Studies for Self-Portrait

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Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe

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Figure in Movement

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Three Studies for Self-Portrait

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Landscape near Malabata , Tangier

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Figure Turning

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Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing

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Study for Head of Lucian Freud

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Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer

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Two Men Working in a Field

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Study from the Human Body, Man Turning on the Light

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Study for a Head

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Head with Raised Arm

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Three Studies for a Portrait

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Two Men Working in a Field

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Untitled (Crouching Nude on Rail)

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Study for Self-Portrait

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Landscape with Car

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Portrait of Man with Glasses III

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Two Figures

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Painting 1990

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Man in Blue VI

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Study from the Human Body

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Sand Dune

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Man in Blue VII

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'Man at a Washbasin'

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Painting March 1985

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Study of Portrait of John Edwards

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Study for a Portrait

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Seated Man

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Painted Screen

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Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne

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Study for Portrait

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Untitled (Head)