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Francis Bacon

[Irish-born British Expressionist Painter, 1909-1992]

• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
Figure with Meat

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Walking Figure, 1959-60

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Francis Bacon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Three Studies for a Self-Portrait, 1979

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Study for Portrait VI, 1953

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works by Francis Bacon online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Triptych

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Study for Chimpanzee, 1957

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Study for Chimpanzee, 1957

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Study for the nurse in the film Battleship Potemkin

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Study for self-portrait, 1976

Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Lying Figure in Mirror, ca.1971

Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Final Unfinished Portrait, 1991-92

Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)  

Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), 1961

Hatton Gallery at the University of Newcastle, UK

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Biography and selected works

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
6 works online

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Man and Child, 1963
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Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Study for a Portrait

Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)  
Etude pour une corrida no.2

Museum of London, UK
Study of a nude, 1952-53

National Museums and Galleries of Wales

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Le pape aux hiboux, 1958

S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Study for Portrait of P.L., no.2

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Reclining Man with Sculpture

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Portrait of Lucian Freud

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Francis Bacon at Insecula

National Fine Art Education Digital Collection, UK

Francis Bacon in the WebMuseum

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web

Francis Bacon at ImageNETion

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
ARTSversus (in French)  
Triptyques

ARTSversus (in French)  
Van Gogh vu par Bacon

 
Other Web Sites:
Artdreamguide (in Italian)  
Biographical information and a guide to the museums owning important collections of the artist's work.

Chrisis: Church of Art
6 works

UK Government Art Collection

Urban Desires E-Zine
Francis Bacon at Beaubourg

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Francis Bacon
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Deutsche Bank Artmag
Francis Bacon: A Portrait

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Study for Portrait II - after the Life Mask of William Blake, 1955

 
Multimedia:
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Audio selections from an interview with the artist

  
 
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Francis Bacon: Personnage Couche
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Francis Bacon: Untitled, 1977
Untitled, 1977

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