Collection connections
Picasso
209.1978 | Collection highlight |
Not on display
Francis Bacon, et al.
Study for self-portrait 1976
Bacon made no secret of the fact that he was greatly influenced by Picasso. He repeatedly stated that it was after seeing a show of Picasso’s drawings at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg in Paris in 1927 that he decided to try to become an artist. What Bacon admired so much in Picasso’s work were his biomorphic figures, which opened up for him endless possibilities for distorting and reinventing the human body. In Study for self-portrait, which is painted on the back of a primed canvas, Bacon portrays himself in a twisting spasm, confined by a geometric space.