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- Head II is an oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon. Completed in 1948, it is the second in a series of six heads, painted from the winter of 1948 in preparation for a November 1949 exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, London. The figure seems half human, half animal, and has disintegrated to an extent that, like the preceding Head I of the series, the entire upper head has disappeared leaving only mouth and jaw. The figure is set in a shallow pictorial space, and is positioned behind curtains that borrow from Titian's 1558 Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto. The curtains are fastened at one point by a safety pin. John Russell sees the curtains as enclosing the figure, as if the walls of a prison or execution dock. Remarking on their dreary and drab appearance he further speculates that they seem "stiffened by fifty year's crasse of a tenth rate lodging-house; or they could be sliding shutters that has been pulled apart to admit a new victim." The painting's overall grisaille appearance give the impression of x-ray photographs, and the look may have been inspired by K.C. Clark's Positioning In Radiography, a book Bacon often acknowledged as a key source for his work. The painting contains a small arrow just below the figures mouth; the first appearance of a motif the artist was to continue using for the rest of his career. (en)
- Head II est un tableau de Francis Bacon issu d'une série de six tableaux de 1948. Le tableau est conservé dans la collection de l'Ulster Museum à Belfast.
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* Portail de l’Irlande (fr)
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- Head II 1949 Francis Bacon.jpg (en)
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- Head II est un tableau de Francis Bacon issu d'une série de six tableaux de 1948. Le tableau est conservé dans la collection de l'Ulster Museum à Belfast.
* Portail de la peinture
* Portail des années 1940
* Portail de l’Irlande (fr)
- Head II is an oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon. Completed in 1948, it is the second in a series of six heads, painted from the winter of 1948 in preparation for a November 1949 exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, London. (en)
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- Head II (en)
- Head II (fr)
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