A new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy highlights Francis Bacon’s paintings of animals ... wide-eyed owls — as well as his grotesque half-animal, half-human figures known as the Furies.

Francis Bacon spent the first 16 years of ... For Bacon, an asthmatic, danger lurked in animal fur, and forever after the British artist professed to hate the countryside.

A photograph, printed in Vogue in 1952, captures Francis Bacon in his element ... the exhibition connects the animal anguish of Bacon’s paintings with the many tragedies that afflicted his ...

In 2013, Francis Bacon’s painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud ... mirrored glass, boxy chairs, animal skins, and mysterious geometries.” If Bacon’s glass-topped tables looked suspiciously ...

Francis Bacon’s final painting Study of a Bull ... which will explore the artist’s interest in animal bodies and flesh, and how these affected his portrayals of other forms such as people ...

“Francis Bacon: Man and Beast,” aims to present the 20th-century artist’s work through a different prism: his fascination with the animal world. While Bacon was very much a metropolitan ...

It comes from the monumental Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné ... for example, of animal painting as well as screaming popes and naked men.

My first visit to 7 Reece Mews in South Kensington, Francis Bacon’s London home ... and empathy with man as animal is reinforced by a portrait of the artist, photographed by John Deakin for ...

Francis Bacon’s work has always ... 19th century photos of human and animal movement, notably of men wrestling, had a more enduring impact. The resulting paintings are sometimes intensely ...

The Estate of Francis Bacon; ADAGP ... In two panels of the three-part painting, lovers cavort on a green carpet, while in the central section an animal carcass rests against a window.

A 1963 three-panel oil painting by Francis Bacon is set to become the first artwork ever taken public. Francis Bacon’s ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer’. Philip Toscano/PA Images ...

Francis Bacon’s final painting Study of a Bull ... which will explore the artist’s interest in animal bodies and flesh, and how these affected his portrayals of other forms such as people ...