'Kneeling Figure - Back View'
Artist
Francis Bacon
(1909 - 1992)
Datec. 1982
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions198 x 147 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by Tedcastles Oil and Conlan Family through Section 1003 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, 2005.
© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved/DACS.
Object number1984
DescriptionUntitled (Kneeling figure - back view) c.1980-82 has been authenticated as a finished work by Francis Bacon. It is clearly related to Study from the Human Body, 1983 (oil and pastel on canvas) (Menil Foundation, Houston) and to other works from the 1979 to 1983 period where Bacon employs a hot orange Cadmium-based tone as a background. A nude male figure, whose head and physique call to mind Bacon's former lover, George Dyer, is seen kneeling on a plinth. Another limb possibly from another figure can also be identified. References to a domestic interior are included in the shape of a light switch and bare light bulb.This work, along with five unfinished works in the Gallery's collection, span Bacon's career from the period of his first major breakthrough in the 1940s to the last years of his life when he had attained the status of the leading figurative artist of his time.On View
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