FRANCIS BACON British, 1909-1992
Francis Bacon was a dominant figure of postwar art, and his canvases remain unmistakable for their contorted emotion and visceral physicality. “I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence... as a snail leaves its slime,” he once said. Among his signature motifs were screaming and disfigured heads, grappling homosexual lovers, and flanks of meat, and his style is characterized by its flat backgrounds and sense of motion, derived from the frequent use of photography and film stills as sources for portraiture. Mostly self-taught, Bacon nonetheless drew influence from an impossibly wide range of artists, from Vincent van Gogh, Eadweard Muybridge, and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, to Rembrandt, Masaccio, Titian, and especially Diego Velázquez, making explicit visual references to many of their works in his paintings. His lasting influence can be seen in particular among Young British Artists such as Darren Coffield, Jenny Saville, and Jake and Dinos Chapman.
We specialise in original works of art by Francis Bacon. For further information on artwork available through private sales, please do contact info@dellasposa.com
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Francis BaconStudy of a Human Body after Ingres, 1984Original lithograph on Arches watermarked paper, with full margins, Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right on recto
Edition numbered in pencil, lower left on rectoImage: 62 x 46.1 cm
Paper: 88.6 x 60.5 cmEdition of 180 -
Francis BaconMetropolitan (left panel), 1981etching and aquatint on Guarro paper, signed and numbered from an edition of 99 in pencil, published by Poligrafa, BarcelonaPaper size: 64.5 x 49.8 cm
78 x 64.5 cm (framed)Edition of 99 -
Francis BaconTriptych August 1972, 1979Series of three lithographs on Arches paperImage: 65.5 x 48.5 cm (each)
Sheet: 89.5 x 61 cm (each)Edition of 180 -
Francis BaconPortrait de Michel Leiris, 1978Etching and aquatint in colours on Arches paper
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right on rectoPlate size 29.7 x 25 cm
Sheet size : 68 x 52 cmEdition of 46 -
Francis BaconPortrait of George Dyer, 1966Lithograph on paper48 x 39.5 cm (framed)
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Francis BaconPortrait of George Dyer Staring at Blind Cord, 1966Lithograph on paper50 x 41.3 cm (framed)
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Francis BaconPortrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1966Lithograph on paper44.1 x 43 cm (framed)
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Francis BaconPortrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966Lithograph on paper47.4 x 42.1 cm (framed)
Francis Bacon was a dominant figure of postwar art, and his canvases remain unmistakable for their contorted emotion and visceral physicality. “I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence... as a snail leaves its slime,” he once said. Among his signature motifs were screaming and disfigured heads, grappling homosexual lovers, and flanks of meat, and his style is characterized by its flat backgrounds and sense of motion, derived from the frequent use of photography and film stills as sources for portraiture. Mostly self-taught, Bacon nonetheless drew influence from an impossibly wide range of artists, from Vincent van Gogh, Eadweard Muybridge, and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, to Rembrandt, Masaccio, Titian, and especially Diego Velázquez, making explicit visual references to many of their works in his paintings. His lasting influence can be seen in particular among Young British Artists such as Darren Coffield, Jenny Saville, and Jake and Dinos Chapman.
We specialise in original works of art by Francis Bacon. For further information on artwork available through private sales, please do contact info@dellasposa.com