So, a show of Bacon’s portraits is, in a sense, perverse – which is plain from the off in Francis Bacon: Human Presence. Study for a Portrait (1949) isn’t a study for a portrait at all ...

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Francis Bacon: Study for Portrait of Van Gogh III (1957). Oil on canvas In fact, there were no overtly homosexual pictures in the show, the most notorious of which (euphemistically known as "The ...