Permeated past anguished visions of humanity, Francis Bacon'south paintings embody the existential ethos of the postwar era. In his powerful, nihilistic works, tormented and plain-featured figures become players in dark, unresolved dramas. Bacon oft referred in his paintings to the history of art, interpreting borrowed images through his ain bleak mentality. Figure with Meat is part of a at present-famous series he devoted to Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (c. 1650; Galleria Doria-Pamphilj, Rome). Hither he transformed the Castilian Bizarre artist's iconic portrayal of papal authority into a nightmarish prototype, in which the blurred figure of the pope, seen as if through a veil, seems trapped in a glass-box torture chamber, his mouth open in a silent scream. Instead of the noble pall that frames Velázquez's pope, Salary is flanked by two sides of beef, quoting the piece of work of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn and twentieth-century Russian artist Chaim Soutine, both of whom painted brutal and haunting images of raw meat. Framed by the carcass, Bacon's pope can be seen alternately every bit a depraved butcher, or as much a victim equally the slaughtered animal hanging behind him.
Condition
On View, Gallery 399
Section
Contemporary Art
Artist
Francis Bacon
Title
Figure with Meat
Place
England (Object fabricated in)
Engagement
1954
Medium
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions
No known inscriptions
Dimensions
129.9 × 121.nine cm (51 1/8 × 48 in.), without frame
"Exhibitions," "Architectural Review" 117, 700 (April 1955), pp. 270–71 (sick.).
"Paintings in the Fine art Constitute of Chicago" (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 17, as "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beefiness."
John Rothenstein, "British Art Since 1900: An Album" (Phaidon, 1962), pl. 133 (color ill.), every bit "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef."
Jane Harrison, "Dissent on Francis Bacon," "Arts" 38, 3 (December 1963), p. 23 (color ill.), equally "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beefiness (Written report After Velázquez)."
Ronald Alley, "Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné" (Thames and Hudson, 1964), true cat. ninety (sick.).
John Russell, "Francis Bacon," "Aujourd'hui" 9, fifty (July 1965), p. 65 (color ill.), as "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez).
"Instituto de Arte de Chicago," El mundo de los museos (Madrid: Editorial Codex, 1967), pp. 16 (ill.), 81 (colour sick.).
H. H. Arnason, "History of Modern Fine art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture" (Harry N. Abrams, 1968), p. 532, pl. 223 (colour sick.), as "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Written report After Velázquez)"; 2nd ed. (1977), p. 559, pl. 229 (colour ill.), equally "Caput Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study Later on Velázquez)"; 3rd ed. (1986), p. 435, pl. 208 (color ill.), every bit "Head Surrounded past Sides of Beefiness (Study Later on Velázquez)."
Michael Greenwood, "Marking Prent," "Artscanada" 29, two (Spring 1972), p. twoscore (ill.), every bit "Caput Surrounded by Sides of Beef."
David W. Boxer, "The Early Work of Francis Bacon" (Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1975), pp. 81, 117, fig. 60 (ill.).
Lorenza Trucchi, "Francis Bacon," trans. John Shepley (Harry N. Abrams, 1975), p. 14, as "Figure with Meat, 1960,"true cat. 41 (sick.).
Hugh M. Davies, "Francis Salary: The Early and Heart Years, 1928–1958," Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts (Garland Publishing, 1978), p. 116.
Wieland Schmied, "Francis Bacon: Vier Studien zu einem Porträt" (Berlin: Frölich und Kaufmann, 1985), p. 65, pl. 143 (ill.), fig. 96 (sick.); rev. and trans. ed., "Francis Salary: Commitment and Conflict" (Prestel, 1996), p. 79, pl. 13 (color ill.), fig. 83 (ill.).
James Northward. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, "Main Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago" (Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books and Footling, Brown and Visitor, 1988), p. 150 (color sick.), equally "Caput Surrounded by Sides of Beef"; 2nd ed., James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Printing, 1999), p. 151 (color ill.).
Ernst van Alphen, "Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self" (Reaktion Books, 1992), p. 102, fig. 56 (ill.).
Rudy Chiappini, ed., "Francis Salary," exh. cat. (Lugano: Museo d'Arte Moderna/Electa, 1993), p. 62.
Frederick Hartt, "Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture," quaternary ed. (Harry N. Abrams, 1993), p. 1017, fig. 38-15 (colour ill.), as "Head Surrounded past Sides of Beef."
James N. Wood, "Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Constitute of Chicago (Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 251 (color ill.), as "Caput Surrounded by Sides of Beefiness."
H. W. Janson, "History of Art," 5th ed. (Harry N. Abrams, 1995), pp. 799, 813, fig. 1099 (color ill.), as "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef"; H. Westward. Janson and Anthony F. Janson, 5th ed. rev. (1997), pp. 825, 840, fig. 1084 (color ill.), as "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef"; 6th ed. (2001), pp. 816, 833, fig. 24-64 (colour ill.), every bit "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beefiness."
Michael Peppiatt, "Francis Bacon: Beefcake of an Enigma" (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996), p. 163.
David Sylvester et al., "Francis Salary," exh. cat. (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1996), p. 35 (ill.).
James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, "The Art Establish of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture" (Hudson Hills Printing, 1996), p. 106 (color ill.).
"Francis Bacon," exh. cat. (Humlebaek, Kingdom of denmark: Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, 1997), p. 41 (color sick.).
Luigi Ficacci, "Francis Bacon, 1909–1992" (Taschen, 2003), p. 27 (color ill).
Michael Peppiatt, "Francis Bacon: le sacré et le profane," exh. true cat. (Paris: Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, 2004), pp. ii, 29 (sick.).
Wilfried Seipel, Barbara Steffen, and Christoph Vitali, Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art, exh. cat. (Fondation Beyeler, 2004), pp. 67, 311, cat. 136 (color ill.).
Martin Harrison, "In Camera, Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Exercise of Painting" (Thames and Hudson, 2005), pp. 126, 160–61, fig. 177 (color sick.).
Armin Zweite, Maria Müller, and Peter Bürger, Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Existent, exh. cat. (
Elena Crippa and Catherine Lampert, London Calling: Salary, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj, exh. cat. (J. Paul Getty Museum/Tate, 2016), pp. 21; 35 (color sick.); 130.
Elena Crippa and Catherine Lampert, London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj, exh. true cat. (Tate Publishing, 2016), pp. 21; 35 (color ill.); 130.
London, Plant of Gimmicky Arts, Francis Bacon, Jan. nineteen–Feb. 19, 1955, organized by Peter Watson, exh. pamphlet, cat. thirteen, as "Study Afterwards Velázquez."
Arts Lodge of Chicago, Surrealism Then and Now, Oct. ane–30, 1958, cat. 1, every bit "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef."
London, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon, May 24–July 1, 1962, cat. 42, as "Study Afterward Velázquez."
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Francis Bacon, Oct. 18, 1963–January. 12, 1964, cat. 27, as Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez); Fine art Plant of Chicago, Jan. 24–Feb. 23, 1964,
Montreal, Expo 67, Homo and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Apr. 28–Oct. 27, 1967, cat. 123, every bit Figure with Meat (Head Surrounded past Sides of Beefiness).
Des Moines Fine art Center, Art in Western Europe: The Postwar Years, 1945–1955, Sept. 19–Oct. 29, 1978, cat. four, as Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study Later Velázquez).
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Fine art, Oct. 15, 2003–Jan.18, 2004, cat. 136; Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Feb. eight–June 27, 2004 (Basel only).
Dusseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Existent, Sept. xvi, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007, cat. thirteen.
Norwich, England, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Francis Salary: Paintings from the 1950s, Sept. 26–Dec. 10, 2006; Milwaukee Art Museum, Jan. 29–Apr. fifteen, 2007, Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, May five–July 30, 2007 (Milwaukee and Buffalo only).
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Francis Salary: Five Decades, Nov. 17, 2012–February. 24, 2013.
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj, July 26–Nov. thirteen, 2016, no true cat. no.
Lucien Freud, London, past 1955; sold through Hanover Gallery, London, to the Art Institute, 1956.
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