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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.

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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.

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