Francis Bacon – Artwork & Bio of the Irish Painter

By / March 13, 2024

Francis Bacon was an Irish painter born on 28 October 1909 in Dublin, Ireland. Due to his father’s distaste for homosexuality, Bacon was exiled from his father’s house as a teenager. He spent the next period of his life traveling around Europe, eventually settling in London in the late-1960s. Bacon initially worked with furniture design before Roy de Maistre began mentoring him in oil painting.

Bacon participated in successful exhibitions in the 1940s and started gaining recognition. During this period, Bacon took an interest in depicting bodies in motion and painted from photographs. He also began to paint portraits of his close friends. Self-portraits and international exhibitions characterized the later years of Bacon’s career. On 28 April 1992, Bacon suffered a heart attack and died in Madrid.

What was Francis Bacon Known For?

The early period of Bacon’s career contained works having themes of violence and pain. The subjects in these works appeared to be wounded and affected by violence. Later, Bacon’s interest in moving bodies convinced him to change the theme and motifs of his works. He often painted the photographs that his friend, John Deakin, captured.

Who was Francis Bacon Influenced By?

Born to a father who was a war officer and former soldier, Francis saw the horrors of the war firsthand from a young age. The effect of his exposure is evident in his earlier violence-themed works. Subsequently, the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge influenced Bacon’s interest in painting bodies in motion. He collected many of the photographer’s books and often used them as references.

What Art Movement was Francis Bacon Associated With?

Francis Bacon was associated with the Expressionism art movement. Bacon’s works always portrayed a certain expression and message.

Francis Bacon Artwork

Below are some of the artworks of Francis Bacon

Composition (Figure)

Crucifixion

Figure in a Landscape

Figure Study II

Figure with Meat

Figures in a Garden

Fury

Head I

Head IV

Painting

Seated Figure

Study after Velazquez

Study for a Bullfight, Number 2

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

Two Figures

All Francis Bacon Artwork on Artchive

Artwork Name Year Medium
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorn standing in a street in soho 1967
Portrait of Jacques Dupin 1990 oil,canvas
Study for Portrait III 1953
Study for Portrait IV 1953
Study for portrait of Henrietta Moraes on a red ground 1964
Study for Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne 1964
Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud 1966
Study for Portrait of P.L. No.1 1957
Study for Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1965
Study for Portrait of Van Gogh III 1957
Study for Portrait of Van Gogh V 1957
Study for Portrait V 1953
Two Studies for Self-Portrait 1972
Two Studies for Self-Portrait 1977
Untitled 1954
Untitled (Pope) c.1953 - c.1954
Van Gogh in a Landscape 1957
Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe 1968 oil,canvas
Walking Figure 1959 - 1960 oil,canvas
Water from a Running Tap 1982
William Blake 1955
Woman IV 1960
Crouching Nude c.1952
Crouching Nude 1961 oil,canvas
Crucifixion 1933
Crucifixion 1965
Diptych: Study from the Human Body - from a Drawing by Ingres 1982 - 1984
Dog 1952
Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach 1964
Drinking 1955
Elephant Fording a River 1952
Portrait of George Dyer Riding a Bicycle 1966
Portrait of George Dyer Staring into a Mirror 1967
Portrait of George Dyer Talking 1966 oil,canvas
Portrait of Henrietta Moraes 1963
Portrait of Henrietta Moraes 1969
Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (Laughing) 1969
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne 1966
Female Nude Standing in Doorway 1972 oil,canvas
Figure 1943
Figure 1951
Figure 1961
Figure at a washbasin 1976
Figure in a Landscape (Miss Diana Watson) 1957 oil,canvas
Figure in a Landscape 1945 oil,canvas
Figure in a Room 1962
Figure in Movement 1972 oil,canvas
Figure in Movement 1978
Portrait of Lucian Freud 1951
Portrait of Lucian Freud 1965
Portrait of Lucian Freud on orange couch 1965
Portrait of Michel Leris 1976
Portrait of Michel Leris 1978
Portrait X 1957
Reclining Man with Sculpture 1960 oil,canvas
Reclining Woman 1961 oil,canvas
Rug 1929
Study for Portrait VII 1953
Study for Portrait VIII 1953
Study for Self-Portrait 1973
Study for Self-Portrait 1979 oil,canvas
Study for Self-Portrait 1980 oil,canvas
Study for Self-Portrait 1981
Study for Self-Portrait 1982
Study for Self-Portrait 1985
Study for the Human Body 1983
Study for the Human Body (Man Turning on the Light) 1973 - 1974
Figure in movement 1985
Figure in Open Doorway 1990 oil,canvas
Figure on a folding bed 1963
Figure Seated (the Cardinal) 1955 oil,canvas
Figures in a Garden 1936 oil,canvas
Figures in a Landscape 1956 oil,canvas
Figures in a street 1983
Figures in Movement 1973 oil,canvas
Figures in Movement 1976
Figure Study II 1946 oil,canvas
Rug 1929
Sand Dune 1981 oil
Sand Dune 1983 oil,canvas
Seated Figure 1961 oil,canvas
Seated Figure 1974
Seated Figure 1977 oil,canvas
Seated Figure 1978 oil,canvas
Seated Figure 1979 oil,pastel,canvas
Seated Figure (S. 5) 1983
Seated Self-Portrait 1973 oil,canvas
Study for the Nurse in the film 'Battleship Potemkin' 1957
Study for the Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1965
Study for Three Heads 1962
Study from human body 1992
Study from the human body 1949
Study from the Human Body 1981
Study from the Human Body 1986 oil,pastel,canvas
Study from the Human Body 1991 oil,pastel,canvas
Study from the Human Body - Figure in Movement 1982 oil,pastel,canvas
Study Imaginary Portrait of Pope Pius XII 1955
Figure Turning 1962
Figure with Meat 1954 oil,canvas
Figure Writing Reflected in a mirror 1976
Fragment of a Crucifixion 1950
Fury 1944 oil,board
Gouache 1929
Head 1951 oil,canvas
Head I 1948
Head II 1949
Head II 1958
Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1 1969 oil,canvas
Second Version of Triptych 1944 1988 oil,acrylic,canvas
Self-Portrait 1969
Self-Portrait 1970
Self-Portrait 1971
Self-Portrait 1972 oil,canvas
Self-Portrait 1972
Self-Portrait 1973 oil,canvas
Self-Portrait 1973 oil,canvas
Self-Portrait 1978 oil,canvas
Study of a Baboon 1953 oil,canvas
Dog 1952 oil,canvas
Study of a Figure in a Landscape 1952 oil,canvas
Study of a Head 1952
Study of a Man Talking 1981
Study of a Nude 1952 - 1953
Study of George Dyer 1971
Study of Red Pope 1962
Study of the Human Body 1982 oil,pastel,canvas
Study of the Human Body 1987 oil,pastel,canvas
Head III 1949 oil,canvas
Head III 1961 oil,canvas
Head IV 1961
Head IV (Man with a Monkey) 1949
Head of a Man - Study of a Drawing by Van Gogh 1959 oil,canvas
Head of a Woman 1960 oil,canvas
Henrietta Moraes 1966
Homage to Van Gogh 1960 oil,canvas
In Memory of George Dyer 1971
Self-Portrait 1978
Self-Portrait 1987 oil,canvas
Self-Portrait I 1972
Self-Portrait II 1972
Sleeping Figure 1959
Sleeping Figure 1974
Sphinx 1954 oil,canvas
Sphinx II 1952
Sphinx III 1954 oil,canvas
Sphinx-Portrait of Muriel Belcher 1979
Tassels 1961
The Crucifixion 1933
Three Figures and Portrait 1975 oil,canvas
Three Figures in a Room 1964
Three Figures, One with Shotgun 1980
Three Portraits: Posthumous Portrait of George Dyer, Self-portrait, and Portrait of Lucian Freud 1973
Three Studies for a Crucifixion 1962 oil,sand,canvas
Three Studies for a Portrait 1977
Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards 1984
Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud 1965
Interior 1952
Jet of Water 1979
Landscape 1978 oil,pastel,canvas
Landscape after Van Gogh 1952
Landscape near Malabata, Tangier 1963
Lisa 1955
Lisa 1957
Lying figure 1958
Lying Figure 1966
Lying Figure 1969 oil,canvas
Street Scene (with Car in Distance) 1984
Studies from the Human Body 1975
Studies From the Human Body: A Triptych 1979
Studies of George Dyer and Isabel Rawsthorne 1970
Study after Velazquez 1950
Study after Velazquez 1950
Study Figure I 1946
Study for a Figure IV 1956 - 1957
Study for a Head 1955
Study for a nude 1951
Three Studies for a Portrait of Mick Jagger 1982
Three studies for a portrait of Peter Beard 1975
Three Studies for a Portrait of Peter Beard 1980
Three Studies for a Self-Portrait 1969
Three Studies for a Self-Portrait 1980
Three Studies for a Self-Portrait 1979 - 1980
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion 1944 oil,board
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (2nd version) 1988
Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (on light ground) 1964
Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (on pink ground) 1964
Lying Figure in Mirror 1971 oil,canvas
Lying Figure No.1 1959 oil,canvas
Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe 1963
Man and Child, 1963 1963 oil,canvas
Man at a Washbasin 1990
Man at Curtain 1949
Man Carrying a Child 1956 oil,canvas
Man in a Chair 1952
Man in Blue I 1954
Man in Blue II 1954 oil,canvas
Study for a Nude with Figure in a Mirror 1969 oil,canvas
Study for a Pope III 1961
Study for a Pope IV 1961
Study for a Pope VI 1961
Study for a Portrait 1952 oil,sand,canvas
Study for a Portrait 1953
Study for a Portrait 1970
Study for a Portrait 1978
Study for a Portrait (looking left) 1962
Study for a Portrait (looking right) 1962
Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes 1963
Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes 1969
Three Studies for Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne 1968
Three Studies for Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (on a dark background) 1965
Three Studies for Portraits: Isabel Rawsthorne, Lucian Freud and J.H. 1966
Three Studies for Self-Portrait 1973
Three Studies for Self-Portrait 1974
Three Studies for Self-Portrait 1976
Three Studies from the Human Body 1967
Three Studies of Figures on Beds 1972
Man in Blue III 1954
Man in Blue IV 1954
Man in Blue V 1954
Man in Blue VII 1954
Man Kneeling in Grass 1952
Man with Dog 1953 oil,canvas
Marching Figures 1952
Miss Muriel Belcher 1959
MLLE SUZY SOLIDOR 1957
Oedipus 1979 oil,canvas
Study for a Portrait of a Man in Blue 1952
Study for a Portrait of John Edwards 1985
Study for a Portrait of John Edwards 1986
Study for a Portrait of John Edwards 1988
Study for a portrait of John Edwards 1988
Study for a portrait of John Edwards 1989
Study for a portrait of John Edwards 1989
Study for a Portrait of P.L. 1962
Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh 1957
Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh II 1957
Three Studies of Figures on Beds 1972 oil,pastel,canvas
Three studies of George Dyer 1966
Three Studies of Henrietta Moraes 1969
Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne 1967
Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne (on a green background) 1966
Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne (on a light background) 1965
Three Studies of Lucian Freud 1969 oil,canvas
Three Studies of Muriel Belcher 1966
Three studies of the Human Head 1953
Triptych 1983 1984
After Muybridge - Study of the Human Figure in Motion - Woman Emptying a Bowl of Water and Paralytic Child on all Fours 1965 oil,canvas
Owls 1956 oil,canvas
Painted Screen 1929
Painting 1930
Painting 1946
Painting 1946, Second Version 1971
Painting 1950
Painting 1978 oil,canvas
Painting 1985
Painting (Head of Man) 1950
Painting of a dog 1952
Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV 1957 oil,canvas
Study for a Portrait with Bird in Flight 1980
Study for a Self-Portrait 1963 oil,canvas
Study for a Self-Portrait 1964
Study for Bullfight No.1 1969 oil,canvas
Study for Crouching Nude 1952 oil,canvas
Study for Figure II 1953 - 1955
Study for Figure in a Room 1953
Study for Head of George Dyer 1967
Study for Head of George Dyer 1967
Triptych 1986-1987 1987
Triptych August 1972 1972
Triptych – August 1972 1972 oil,sand,canvas
Triptych – In Memory of George Dyer 1971 oil,canvas
Triptych Inspired by Oresteia of Aeschylus 1981
Triptych March 1974 1974
Triptych, May–June 1973 1973 oil,canvas
Triptych, May–June 1973 1973
Triptych May-June 1974 1974 - 1977
Triptych - Studies from the Human Body 1970
After Picasso 'LA DANSE' 1933
After the life mask of William Blake 1955
A Piece of Waste Land 1982
Bacon Portrait of Man with Glasses III 1963
Blood on the Floor 1986
Carcass of Meat and Bird of Prey 1980 oil,pastel,canvas
Chimpanzee 1955 oil,canvas
Chimpanzee 1957
Composition (Figure) 1933 gouache,pastel,ink,paper
Crouching Nude 1951
Pope and Chimpanzee 1962
Pope I 1951
Pope II 1951
Pope III 1951
Pope With Owls 1958
Portrait 1930
Portrait of a Dwarf 1975
Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud 1967
Portrait of George Dyer Crouching 1966
Portrait of George Dyer in a Mirror 1968
Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne 1961
Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne 1967
Study for Head of Lucian Freud 1976
Study for Landscape After Van Gogh 1957
Study for Portrait 1949
Study for Portrait 1977 oil,canvas
Study for Portrait 1978 oil,canvas
Study for Portrait 1981
Study for Portrait I 1953
Study for Portrait II 1952
Triptych - Studies from the Human Body 1970 oil,canvas
Triptych - Studies of the Human Body 1970
Two Figures 1953 oil,canvas
Two Figures in a Room 1959 oil,canvas
Two Figures in the Grass 1954
Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants 1968
Two Men Working In A Field 1971 oil
Two Seated Figures 1979 oil,canvas
Two Studies for a Portrait of Richard Chopping 1978
Two Studies for a Self-Portrait 1970
Self-Portrait 1958 Oil on Canvas
Head VI 1949 Oil on Canvas
Self-Portrait 1958 Oil on Canvas
Oedipus and the Sphinx After Ingres 1983 Oil on Canvas
Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953 Oil on Canvas

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