perverse – which is plain from the off in Francis Bacon: Human Presence. Study for a Portrait (1949) isn’t a study for a ...
Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second ... Yet besides the symbolic depictions that made him famous – the ...
Francis Bacon: Head VI (1949 ... But Moscow did get one of Bacon’s famous "Screaming Popes" – Head VI (1949), a nightmare image based on Velazquez’s "Portrait of Pope Innocent X".