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Many of Bacon's paintings are "inhabited" by reclining figures. Single, or, as in triptychs, repeated with variations, they can be commented by symbolic indexes (like circular arrows as signs for rotation), turning painted images to blueprints for moving images of the type of contemporary GIFs.
Destroyed paintings. Bacon destroyed many hundreds of paintings. The so-called ‘slashed canvasses’ are not (with one exception, Do uble Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, 1964 (64-03)) included in this catalogue. Forty such canvasses, found in Bacon’s studio after he died, are now in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.
Sketch [Figure in Grey Interior] Francis Bacon. c.1959–61. View by appointment.
It is likely the painting was started in Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, where Bacon resided between September 1959 and January 1960. It was probably finished back in London at Overstrand Mansions prior to the exhibition in March 1960.
Bacon’s figures possess a restless, violent energy, often hemmed in by the sparse interiors they occupy. Moore’s sculptures expand comfortably into their surroundings, reflecting his wish that bodies be ‘so naturally fused that they are one’ with the space they sit in.
In 1953, Hanover held an exhibition of Bacon's paintings that included Two Figures, a depiction of two men embracing in bed, an image that created a huge scandal. The composition was based upon photographs taken by the Victorian photographer Eadweard Muybridge .
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Six works, ranging in date from 1959 to 1988, demonstrate his radical and varied approach to the subject. The exhibition includes three works belonging to a series of paintings and sketches of lying and reclining figures that Bacon completed between 1959 and 1961.
