Sunday, 31 May 2015

Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992)

Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X,  1953
Diego Velazquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1650

Film still of the screaming nurse from Battleship Potemkin (1925) directed by Sergei Eisenstein; image used by Bacon as ‘catalyst’ for face of ‘Screaming Pope’.

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