FINE ART : PAINTINGS

Title: Head II (1949)
Object Name: Painting
Maker: Bacon, Francis 1909-1992 (Primary maker)
Bacon, Francis 1909-1992 (artist)
Date Made: 1949
1949
Description: Increasingly considered the greatest British artist of the twentieth century, Bacon was born in Dublin but lived most of his life in London. A central figure in the Bohemian artistic world of post-war Soho, his work depicts the human figure in a manner that is viscerally arresting and deeply potent. Bacon said that his paintings are not intended to have a precise meaning ‘They are just an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual … painting is the pattern of one’s own nervous system being projected on to the canvas’.
Materials: oil on canvas
Catalogue Number: BELUM.U436
Notes: © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2017. Donated by the Contemporary Art Society.

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