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Head II

© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2024. Photo credit: National Museums NI

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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’.

Ulster Museum

Belfast

Title

Head II

Date

1949

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 80 x W 63.6 cm

Accession number

BELUM.U436

Acquisition method

gift from the Contemporary Art Society, 1959

Work type

Painting

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