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'Figure'

'Figure'

Artist (1909 - 1992)
Datec. 1962
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 number1980
DescriptionThis is one of six unfinished paintings by Francis Bacon in the collection. These works 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. They are unique among his paintings on public display since they are incomplete and thus reveal his unorthodox techniques in their raw state. These works follow his progress from first exploratory outlines to the application of intense colour and expressive modelling. Each work can be related to other paintings from the painter's oeuvre and several mark important stages in his development.
On View
On view
'Seated Figure and Carpet'
Francis Bacon
c. 1966
'Figure with Raised Arm'
Francis Bacon
c. 1952
'Three Figures'
Francis Bacon
c. 1982
'Seated Figure'
Francis Bacon
c. 1978
'Kneeling Figure - Back View'
Francis Bacon
c. 1982
Portrait of John Edwards
Francis Bacon
2002
'Self-Portrait' ` 1991 - 1992
Francis Bacon
1991-92
Recoil
Mark Francis
1997
A Water Meadow
Sir Francis Seymour Haden
1859
Lady Gregory
Antonio Mancini
1907
Loading a Ship
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson
1917