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“I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence in colour.”
Francis Bacon
Painter · Expressionism · 1909–1992
Irish-British painter whose screaming popes and triptychs glow in meat reds, dirty whites, and a sour glass blue.
The Palette
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“I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence in colour.”
Irish-British painter whose screaming popes and triptychs glow in meat reds, dirty whites, and a sour glass blue.