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    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...
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  • Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was an English Elizabethan philosopher, statesman and essayist. Francis Bacon may also refer to: Francis Bacon (artist) (1909–1992)...
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    The painter Francis Bacon was largely self-taught as an artist. As well as other visual artists, Bacon drew inspiration from the poems of T. S. Eliot,...
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  • is an incomplete list of paintings by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992). c.1929–30 Painting (Oil on canvas, 91.5 cm × 61 cm, Private...
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  • The Irish-born artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) painted 28 known triptychs between 1944 and 1986. He began to work in the format in the mid-1940s with...
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  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film produced by The British Film Institute and BBC Film. It was written and directed...
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    This is a complete chronological bibliography of Francis Bacon. Many of Bacon's writings were only published after his death in 1626. Notes on the State...
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  • The Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) painted 28 known large triptychs between 1944 and 1985–86. He began working in the format in the...
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  • Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (French: Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation) is a 1981 book by philosopher Gilles Deleuze, analyzing the work...
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  • Three Studies of Lucian Freud (category Portraits by Francis Bacon)
    1969 oil-on-canvas triptych by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud. It was sold in November 2013 for US$142.4 million...
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    Hebrew Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method Francis Bacon (artist)...
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  • pun on an antimetabole, a quote often attributed to the Irish painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992) or the American musician Tom Waits (born 1949), but which...
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  • The Black Triptychs (category Francis Bacon (artist))
    series of three triptychs painted by the British artist Francis Bacon between 1972 and 1974. Bacon admitted that they were created as an exorcism of...
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  • The Death of Francis Bacon is a novella by Max Porter about Francis Bacon, published in 2021. It is a reimagining of Bacon's deathbed thoughts, in his...
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  • reasons of Scottish nationalism and republicanism. W. H. Auden, poet Francis Bacon, artist (in 1977; previously declined appointment as CBE in 1960). Leonard...
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  • Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (category Paintings by Francis Bacon)
    1953 painting by the artist Francis Bacon. The work shows a distorted version of the Portrait of Innocent X painted by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in...
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  • Crowe's transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with the British artist Francis Bacon, filmed for The South Bank Show in 1985. The opera was first performed...
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  • Crucifixion (CR 33-01) is an early oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bacon, made in 1933 when Bacon was aged 23 or 24. It was one of three paintings on the...
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  • Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. Across each of the three panels, the work shows three forms of violent death. This triptych was the third such which Bacon painted...
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    the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon. He was born at Chislehurst, Kent, the second son of Robert Bacon (1479–1548) of Drinkstone, Suffolk...
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  • Figure with Meat (category Paintings by Francis Bacon)
    by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. The figure is based on the Pope Innocent X portrait by Diego Velázquez; however, in the Bacon painting the Pope...
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    Anthony Bacon (1558–1601) was a member of the powerful English Bacon family and was a spy during the Elizabethan era. He was Francis Bacon's elder brother...
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  • Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (category Paintings by Francis Bacon)
    Crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon. The canvasses are based on the Eumenides—or Furies—of Aeschylus's...
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  • Painting 1946 (category Paintings by Francis Bacon)
    Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. It was originally intended to depict a chimpanzee in long grass (parts of which may be still visible); Bacon then attempted...
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  • Triptych, 1976 (category Paintings by Francis Bacon)
    by the British artist Francis Bacon in 1976. It comprises three oil and pastel paintings on canvas. It is the second most expensive Bacon ever sold, after...
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  • Munch Henri Matisse André Derain Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Modigliani Francis Bacon (artist) Georg Grosz Lucian Freud Frida Kahlo Robert Rauschenberg James...
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  • politician; one of the Bacon baronets Cecil Walter Bacon (1905–1992), British artist and illustrator Charles Bacon (disambiguation) Charles Bacon (1821–1886), English...
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  • Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (category Portraits by Francis Bacon)
    Irish-born artist Francis Bacon, which he destroyed before it left his studio, though it was photographed and is highly regarded by art critics. Bacon was a...
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    Michael Luke's Gargoyle Years, between pages 84–85. Fred Astaire Francis Bacon (artist) Hermione Baddeley Tallulah Bankhead Lady Caroline Blackwood Guy...
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  • Three Studies for George Dyer (category Paintings by Francis Bacon)
    triptych painted by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon in 1964. It comprises three portraits of Bacon's lover George Dyer: from left to right, a...
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