'This single canvas began as the left panel of a triptych. A photograph [...] shows Bacon with his ‘viewing frame’ for small triptychs, in which 80‑11 is on the left side.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.1214

Painting: Study for Self-Portrait, 1980
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'The warm palette is unusual. It signals a shift in the chromatics of the self-portraits, and the eschewal of the bright shirts worn in those of 1972 and 1973.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.1066

Painting: Three Studies for Self-Portrait, 1974
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'Pillows were one of his fetishistic signifiers, and the pillow on the green table [...] is executed with as much care as anything he painted'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.1050

Painting: Two Figures with a Monkey, 1973
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'The drawing of the man on a couch may be transitional between Deakin's photographs and a painting, or Bacon may have had photographs taken to conform with this conception.'⁠
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Francis Bacon: In Camera, Martin Harrison, pg 181⁠
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'If Bacon can be said to be represented by a 'signature image', it is the 'Screaming Pope', yet he came to regret his obsession with painting popes'

Francis Bacon: In Camera, Martin Harrison, pg 92

Painting: Head VI, 1949
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'Compare the light, ethereal Polaroid taken by Hamilton of Bacon with the dark infernal one taken by Bacon of Hamilton [...] The comparison demonstrates[...] Hamilton's belief that a photograph taken by an artist tends to 'really present his own personality'.' Bacon Review, p44

'In a letter [...] Bacon urged that this painting be included in a retrospective exhibition of his work to tour the USA in 1989–90.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.982

Painting: Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud (sideways), 1971
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The final instalment of our KCL talk is out. In it Professor Alenka Zupančič discusses figures beyond typical representation, anxiety, fear of death and much more. Stay tuned for a post-talk discussion with Dr Ben Ware and Prof. Dany Nobus.

youtube.com/watch?v=XHpLH6…

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'This is the earliest of six paintings of heads that were included in Bacon’s exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, London, in November 1949.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.180

Painting: Head 1, 1948
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'The strip that Bacon eliminated presumably showed more of the dog at the bottom right.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné (London: The Estate of Francis Bacon Publishing, 2016) p.134

Painting: Interior of a Room, c.1934
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'George Dyer died in Paris on 24 October 1971 [...] The setting of the centre panel is based on a stairway in the Paris hotel in which Dyer died.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.988

Painting: In Memory of George Dyer, 1971
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Don't miss Prof Dany Nobus from King's College London's next talk, 'Francis Bacon’s Eyes: Blindness, Portraiture, and the Derangement of the Senses'. Delve into Bacon's self-analysis through art, chaired by Prof. Sacha Golob.

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=VLGEMY…
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'The head was cut from a large canvas, the remainder of which was found in Bacon’s studio after his death and is now with Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.704

Painting: Head’, c.1962
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'The forms in the few paintings by Bacon that survive from the period 1933 to 1944 underline his reliance on Picasso’s biomorphs [...] Unusually for Bacon, the painting is varnished'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p.136

Painting: Figures in a Garden, c.1935

'Bacon considered this his most successful use of 'shuttering'.'⁠
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Francis Bacon: In Camera, Martin Harrison, pg 160⁠
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Painting: Sketch for a Portrait of Lisa (1955)⁠
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Quote From: David Sylvester, Interviews with Francis Bacon (Thames & Hudson, 2008).⁠
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Painting featured: Figure Study I, 1945-46⁠
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'In addition to the space of Bacon's Reece Mews stairwell, this painting incorporates references to the light-switch and unshaded light-bulb in his studio.'⁠
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Francis Bacon: In Camera, Martin Harrison, pg 116⁠
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Painting: Study of the Human Body (Man Turning on Light)⁠

'No specific pictorial ‘source’ for the painting has been identified but [...] Manet’s seascapes may have been a stimulus. The poems of T.S.Eliot could also have provided inspiration.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, p.318

Painting: Sea, c.1953

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📺 Don't miss the third episode! Prof. Rohit Goel explores Francis Bacon's art and movement. Tune in on YouTube for insights from the 'Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis' event at King’s College London.

Watch now: youtu.be/DcLntNwaBOI
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'This was to be the last unequivocal celebration in paint of Bacon’s love affair with Peter Lacy.'

Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, p.362

Painting: Two Figures at a Window, 1953
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