Francis Bacon: Human Presence ... “We [humans] are meat,” he once said, ... former fighter pilot Peter Lacy in Study of Figure in a Landscape (1952).

Visitors to Francis Bacon: Human Presence are greeted by his studies of papal figures and men in suits. In these works, Bacon encased his figures in the suggestions of boxes, which are known as “space ...

Eyes and mouths macerated, smacked and tenderized like sides of meat. Ungenerous, unflattering images of faces smooshed as if against panes of glass. In his 1981 book, Francis Bacon: Logique de la ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992 ... the show argues that Bacon was, in essence, "always a portraitist of sorts", a painter of the human figure, who frequently based his depictions on real people.

splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence. In vital, varied ways, Bacon’s paintings mostly depict the human figure. The NPG opens with a wistful “Self-Portrait” splattered with red ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... those dreadful pictures” is still a unique figure, who hits us on levels other artists don’t reach. Bacon on the face of it is a no-brainer for the ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon ... of a screaming figure inspired by Diego Velazquez’s Pope Innocent X (1649-50). Strangely, given that Bacon “loathed ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a giant of modern art, ... and two riffs on Van Gogh’s The Painter on the Road to Tarascon that reduce the main figure to an angry mess of shadows.

Some 20 paintings of her by Bacon exist, and one startling example from 1966 is a highlight of the new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Francis Bacon: Human Presence. It depicts Moraes ...

An anthology of writings on Francis Bacon compiled by Michael Peppiatt ... it is tempting to see the tortured, standing figure as partly a self-portrait of the British artist.

Figure in Movement, a 1976 painting by Francis Bacon that expressively reveals the artist’s pain after the death of his lover and muse, George Dyer, is expected to achieve about US$50 million ...