surrealism – Page 2 – Little Bristling Soul

Francis Bacon, Fragment of a Crucifixion, 1950, oil and cotton wool on canvas, 140 cm × 108.5 cm (55 in × 42.7 in)

Francis Bacon, Three Studies of Figures on Beds, 1972, Oil and pastel on canvas, each panel: 198 x 147.5 cm

Francis Bacon (British, b. 1909-1992), Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake), 1955. Oil on canvas 61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)

FRANCIS BACON, Portrait of George Dyer Staring Into a Mirror, 1967, oil on canvas

Francis Bacon. Figure with Two Owls, Study for Velazquez (1963) – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Francis Bacon – Self-portrait, 1973

raveneuse:

Francis Bacon’s Triptych – August 1972 is one in a series of Black Triptychs which followed the suicide of Bacon’s lover, George Dyer. The artist’s biographer wrote:

“What death has not already consumed seeps out of the figures as their shadows.”