Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Painter
Sitter associated with 32 portraits
One of the twentieth-century's greatest painters. Born in Dublin, Bacon left Ireland at the age of sixteen and first came to notice as an interior designer. The painting Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944, Tate) established him as an artist of international importance. Bacon used imagery from sources as diverse as Velasquez, Van Gogh, the cinema, crumpled snapshots and illustrations of disease. He described his images of tortured and anguished bodies as 'a direct assault on the nervous system.'
by Ruskin Spear
oil on board, 1984
On display in Room 32 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5818
by Dmitri Kasterine
modern bromide print from an original negative, 2009 (1978)
NPG P1321
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1951
NPG x14018
John Rothenstein; Francis Bacon
by Herbert K. Nolan
bromide print, March 1957
NPG x24190
by Jorge ('J.S.') Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1967
NPG x13707
by Harry Diamond
vintage bromide print, 1974
NPG x135768
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