Photographers capturing "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion" (1944) by Francis Bacon. ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/AFP/Getty Images Bacon was already in his mid-30s by then – “a late ...

Bacon himself was tight-lipped about his activities before the exhibition in 1945 of his breakthrough “Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.” He actively discouraged biographers.

Francis Bacon’s daring yet disturbing portrayals of friends and lovers and his imaginative interpretations of historical paintings, photographs, and films have long been celebrated. Now the ...

The carcasses deliberately evoke the crucifixion. Bacon wasn’t religious, but he was drawn to the crucifixion, which gave painters a pretext to raise figures into “a very pronounced and ...

When Bacon saw Old Master paintings of the Crucifixion—he especially loved Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, with Jesus almost rotting on the Cross—they lined up in his mind with ...

Once again, Bacon ignored the spiritual elements traditionally associated with Crucifixion paintings, to focus on flesh, decay, and violent death. The central panel shows a mutilated person lying ...

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch Fragment of a Crucifixion (after Francis Bacon) (1999). Explore cast details and learn more on ...

Francis Bacon’s work has always been instantly recognizable. “Nightmarish horror” was how art critic David Sylvester described it in 1954, citing the general critical response to his ...

Francis Bacon’s work has always been instantly recognizable. “Nightmarish horror” was how art critic David Sylvester described it in 1954, citing the general critical response to his paintings.