Irish-born Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is known in what field?
Francis Bacon (artist) bring forward the donation and, on condition there should be no ceremony, gifted it to the gallery in 1991." Francis Bacon (artist) Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his emotionally charged raw imagery, fixation on personal motifs, and heavy experimentation. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions, and portraits of close friends. His abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical cages which give them vague 3D depth, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers c.
Triptychs by Francis Bacon Triptychs by Francis Bacon The Irish-born artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) painted 28 known triptychs between 1944 and 1986. He began to work in the format in the mid-1940s with a number of smaller scale formats before graduating in 1962 to large examples. He followed the larger style for 30 years, although he painted a number of smaller scale triptychs of friend's heads, and after the death of his former lover George Dyer in 1971, the three "Black Triptychs". Bacon was a highly mannered artist often preoccupied with forms, themes, images and modes of expression that he would rework for sustained