Francis Bacon’s work has always been instantly recognizable. “Nightmarish horror” was how art critic David Sylvester described it in 1954, ... her glasses smashed and her face bloodied, ...

Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait, 1973 - Francis Bacon Face off: Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1965 - The Estate of Francis Bacon.

A London Exhibition Delves Deeper into Francis Bacon’s ‘Human Presence’ Ephemera and other materials in the National Portrait Gallery show—letters, filmed interviews, the Rembrandt, photos ...

“Francis Bacon: Revelations,” by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, ... This is the Bacon we know — creature of Stygian charm in dandy’s garb, whose own face was flayed by lovers, ...

Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. ... A sculpture of Bacon’s face and a picture of Joule and Bacon in June 1978, inside Joule’s apartment.

Before David Lynch, there was Francis Bacon. Sebastian Smee. Thu, February 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM UTC. ... The actual figure of horror was almost absurd: a person with matted hair and a filthy face.

Henrietta Moraes, Francis Bacon, 1966 Francis Bacon The influence goes both ways. Directors looking to create a particularly visceral kind of horror have long looked to Bacon’s paintings.

Bacon on the face of it is a no-brainer for the National Portrait Gallery. ... Francis Bacon – Human Presence runs from 10 October until 19 January 2025. More about ...

Francis Bacon: Human Presence at ... Henrietta Moraes, in Deakin’s photograph a beautiful, free-spirited brunette, acquires in Bacon’s 1966 nude depiction a face like a chimpanzee’s and ...

Bacon was similar. He didn’t paint many images like this one, a 1953 painting at the National Gallery of Art called “Study of a Dog.” But the loping, blurry, foreshortened dog emerging from ...

Francis Bacon’s work has always been instantly recognizable. “Nightmarish horror” was how art critic David Sylvester described it in 1954, ... her glasses smashed and her face bloodied, ...