Francis Bacon Etude Pour le Portrait de Van Gogh 5 XXe Siecle 11 1958

Artist: Francis Bacon
Country: Ireland
Title: Etude Pour le Portrait de Van Gogh 5
Medium: Offset
Marks: Not signed, not numbered
Size: 12.50 x 9.50 inch
Printed: 1958 in France
Provenance: Xxe siecle 11 1958
Condition: Very Good

Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.