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Study for a Bullfight, Number 2 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon executed in 1969. [1] The painting now belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which acquired it in 1997.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Baron Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon. The canvasses are based on the Eumenides —or Furies—of Aeschylus 's Oresteia , and depict three writhing anthropomorphic creatures set against a flat burnt orange background.
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through ...
Francis Bacon, Three Studies for a Crucifixion, 1962, Guggenheim Museum in New York Three Studies for a Crucifixion is a 1962 triptych oil painting by Francis Bacon.It was completed in March 1962 and comprises three separate canvases, each measuring 198.1 by 144.8 centimetres (6 ft 6.0 in × 4 ft 9.0 in).
Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.
Crucifixion (1933). Crucifixion (CR 33-01) is an early oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bacon, made in 1933 when Bacon was aged 23 or 24.It was one of three paintings on the subject of the Crucifixion of Jesus that he made in 1933, the others being his Crucifixion with Skull (CR 33-03), commissioned by art collector Sir Michael Sadler, and Wound for a Crucifixion (later destroyed by Bacon).
California hasn’t executed a condemned prisoner in nearly 20 years, but prosecutors continue to seek the death penalty, leading to court costs of more than $300 million in the last five years ...