A Francis Bacon painting valued at £60m ... His Study of Red Pope 1962, 2nd Version 1971 was the last in the artist's famous series of papal portraits. It was exhibited in Paris in 1971, six ...
48 x 73 cm. (18.9 x 28.7 in.) 78 x 102 x 3 cm. (30.7 x 40.1 x 1.1 in.) ...
Visitors to Francis Bacon: Human Presence are greeted by his studies of papal figures and men in suits. In these works, Bacon ...
Bacon’s Pope I (Study after Pope ... it was Minton who commissioned the artist to paint his portrait, deeply impressed by a small-scale portrait of Francis Bacon, completed just a few months ...
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...
Indeed, the careful, even tight-arsed handling of the circular forms protruding from the artist’s face contradicts everything ...
Did you know? Some of Francis Bacon’s most famous artworks are inspired by old masters, such as Head VI that is based on the 'Portrait Of Pope Innocent X' by the Spanish artist Diego Velazquez.
Stephen Wakelam's play for Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow, reveals how Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to have a ... Velazquez’s "Portrait of Pope Innocent X".