Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
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The masterpiece should appear as the flower to
the painterperfect in its bud as in its
bloomwith no reason to explain its presenceno
mission to fulfilla joy to the artist.

• James McNeill Whistler

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Self Portrait (1932)
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In art, all who have done something other than
their predecessors have merited the epithet of
revolutionary and it is they alone who are
masters.

• Paul Gaugin

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Blood on the Floor (1986)
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Francis Bacon his mother Winifred (1914)
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Study from the Human Body (1949)
Study for Human Body (1991)
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Detail from Poussins The Massacre of the
Innocents (1630-31)
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Crucifixion (1933)
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Figures in a Garden (1936)
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Figure Getting Out of Car (1943)
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Alecto
Megaera
Tisiphone
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a
Crucifixion (1944)
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Picassos The Spanish Crucifixion (1930-34)
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Painting (1946)
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Study from Innocent X (1964)
Study from Innocent X (1962)
Velazquezs Pope Innocent X (1650)
Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent
X(1953)
Study from Innocent X (1962)
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Oedipus after the Sphinx, after Ingres (1983)
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,
but that one is young. Oscar Wilde
Old age is horrible and incurable. Michel
Leiris
I know Im just dead. I know I just become a
skeleton. I just go back to the earthWe become
once again the compost of the earth. Thats all
there is. Theres nothing else to life.
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon (1983)
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"I myself and the life I've lived happen to be
more profoundly curious than my work. Then
sometimes, when I think about it, I'd prefer
everything about my life to blow up after I die
and disappear".

• Francis Bacon